Hemp Hoodie. 55% Hemp, 45% Organic Cotton Fleece.

A heavyweight zip up with a real fleece lining, a YKK zipper and a relaxed fit. Designed in Humboldt County, California. Free US shipping.

The fabric has a three thousand year head start

The word canvas comes from cannabis. It moved from Greek into Latin as cannabis, into Vulgar Latin as cannabaceus, meaning made of hemp, and into English as canvas. The cloth is named after the plant, because for most of recorded history that is what the cloth was made of.

Hemp got that job because it could take the abuse. In the age of sail, a frigate the size of the USS Constitution needed roughly forty miles of cordage, and hemp was the fiber used for her standing rigging, her running rigging, the bolt ropes sewn into her sails and her anchor cables. When the Navy re-rigged her between 1927 and 1931, the Charlestown ropewalk spun about sixty seven tons of rope for the job, and the standing rigging was natural hemp.

That is not nostalgia. It is the same property you want in something you intend to keep. A fiber chosen to hold a ship together holds a garment together too.

It was illegal to grow here, and now it is not

Hemp and marijuana are the same species, and for decades US law did not separate them, so the fiber crop disappeared along with the drug. That changed on December 20, 2018, when the Farm Bill amended the Controlled Substances Act to exclude hemp, defined as cannabis containing no more than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC, from the legal definition of marijuana.

The mills have not come back yet. There is no US spinner and weaver making hemp fleece at this weight, so we design the hoodie here, pick the fabric weight and the fit, and have it manufactured to our spec overseas. We would rather say that plainly than let you assume otherwise.

What it is actually like to wear

The lining is real fleece, not a brushed face.

Ribbed cuffs and hem, so they keep their shape.

YKK zipper, because the hardware fails first.

How the crop is actually grown

Fiber hemp is planted dense on purpose. The canopy closes early and shades out most weeds, which is why the crop is commonly grown with little or no herbicide.

It is also much less thirsty than cotton. A review pooling twenty eight published studies put hemp at roughly 38 percent lower crop water requirement and roughly 60 percent lower water footprint than cotton for the same fiber.

Details and specs

Five colors

Reactive Black

Coral Blue

Dark Brown

Workout Grey

Mossy Green

Size chart

Measured laid flat, in inches. Width is armpit to armpit, so double it for the full chest. True to size, with a slightly long body.

Buy more, save more

Mix colors and sizes. The bundle discount applies at checkout, no coupon needed.

Wholesale

Bulk pricing for retailers and resellers. Message us for a sheet.

Matching tees

The same hemp and organic cotton blend also comes as a heavyweight t-shirt, including big and tall sizes.