Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:35:49 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <199702171635.KAA19694@dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com>
From: mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com (MARK LEHNERTZ)
Subject: Re: Skin boat coverings
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
You wrote:
>Has anyone ever considered the use of "Hemp" as a Baidarka skin
covering?
>
>Environmental considerations aside, hemp is a superior fabric. Hemp
>looks and feels like linen. But hemp is considerably more durable. In
>stress tests, hemp had eight times the tensile strength and four times
(clip)
>Philip Wylie
>
Reply:
My only experiences with hemp as a cloth is that it was about (seemed)
six times as heavy as cotton. Have owned a hemp fabric backpack,
durable, lasted twelve years of heavy use, was stolen out of my garage
before it wore out...had some pants made of hemp - they felt like I was
wearing six pairs of pants - very heavy, never wore out either. (They
shrunk along with all of my other clothes as I moved through my
thirties.)
Don't know if all hemp fabric is that heavy but mine was...
Thanks--ml