Many plastics were invented to imitate natural substances, like rubber, wood, bone, silk, hemp, or ivory.
An absurdity, in the words of Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, that had brought the warring nation to sacrifice "her best and bravest subjects for raw silk, hemp and tobacco... her hardy veterans and honest trades-men... for a box of snuff or a silk petticoat".
The Wearable Art show, as seen in the video below, features Hawaiian designers Lauwa'e, Manuheali'i, Marques Marzan (who designed abstract textiles out of breadfruit, silk, hemp, and kapa fibers using the Hawaiian lauhala technique), and a powerful performance from designer Manaola Yap, with his sister, Asialynn Kalihilihiula Yap, performing a 17th-century drum chant.
Get coiffed and check out organic silk-hemp gowns from Adele Wechsler at a free "green wedding" event at an Aveda salon.
Its other industries included the processing of wool, silk, jute, hemp, and leather and the manufacture of clothing, metals, chemicals, and paper.
2. Fetishizing of the bonds: There are many items that an individual can be bound with: silk scarves, hemp rope, bamboo or silk rope, handcuffs, leather straps, steel shackles, metal chains -- the list goes on and on.
Some of the other goods traded included luxuries such as silk, satin, hemp and other fine fabrics, musk, other perfumes, spices, medicines, jewels, glassware, and even rhubarb, as well as slaves.
Neil Barrett showed a collection in washed leather, silk twill, and hemp that combined ruggedness with finesse.
Possible candidates include polyamides as well as hemp, silk, and many others.
Based on the selected designers' case study and literature reviews, we suggest using natural fibers (e.g., hemp, silk, wool) that decompose easily with pre-identified soil types and microflora for best green burial practices.
Hemp and hemp silk are great alternatives too.
