Hope from France

Hope from France

Tomáš Mikolaj

Nathalie Revol, a native of the French department of Haute Marne, used to see as a child from the windows of her grandmother’s house fields of hemp. The latter was cultivated over ten thousand hectares of land for the cooperative Chanvrière de lʼAube, the oldest and largest French company for the industrial processing of this plant. This is perhaps why she founded her own brand at the age of thirty with her friend to make clothing out of one hundred percent hemp. And although they were successful, after eleven years they had to put an end to their production due to the growing complications in obtaining hemp thread. However, she later returned to hemp by accepting an offer from the association Lin et Chanvre Bio (Organic Linen and Hemp) to revitalise hemp production in Normandy.

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