A look at American hemp harvesting and rope making during World War II. See hemp retting, cordage production, and naval applications in this 1942 film.

“Hemp was Henry Clay’s most lucrative cash crop at Ashland,” HenryClay.org writes. “Men enslaved by Clay grew thousands of pounds of hemp and manufactured it into rope and bagging for the ...

Hemp was integral to many early European civilizations. The Russians had used hemp rope as far back as 600 BCE. Greeks started using hemp rope on their ships around 200 BCE.

Despite its impressive features and long lifespan, synthetic hemp rope is typically very affordable. At RopesDirect, for example, premium synthetic hemp is currently priced at just 30p per metre, with ...

Post-legalization, the market for hemp rope, fabric and other non-ingestible products was slow to develop. Even sales of CBD products were stymied by a lack of federal regulations, ...

Many Minnesota farms once boasted hemp acreage, from which can be made rope, twine and fabric. Hemp also can produce CBD oil, which is a growing trend for health, including massage oils, and which ...

Oatman: For us in particular, the hemp rope is a part of our creation story, and has played an integral part in our fishing economy since time immemorial.