Hemp & Bamboo Jersey - Organic 55%H 45%B - 240g

This organic bamboo yarn and its fabric has a smooth, soft feel making it a wonderful sustainable clothing fabric. This 240 organic jersey fabric is perfect for making t-shirts, dresses, underwear, bralettes, skirts, shorts, blankets, scarves and hats. It's also a fantastic choice for making sustainable childrens clothing or baby clothing, as the fabric is kind to sensitive skin.

Although there are 2 types of bamboo yarn on the market: viscose bamboo and natural plant bamboo, our bamboo is the viscose variety as up till now, there is only a tiny amount of the pure 'bast' plant fibre version (currently less than 1% of all bamboo fibre) available and it is not made into this type of jersey fabric. Viscose bamboo is an extruded fibre which is a chemical process similar to how rayon, tencel & viscose are produced, so it is a man-made fabric. This type of viscose uses the bamboo as the raw ingredient, the cellulose, in the production of the fibre so it does have eco credentials but not as much as the pure bast plant fibre bamboo.

Including hemp in the fabric blend is a great way to offset the more intensive processing of bamboo fibre into viscose. Hemp is the most sustainable and environmentally friendly fabric by a long shot, and unlike bamboo viscose, hemp does not need to undergo any chemical processing to result in a soft and durable textile.