Weight – 455 gsm Width – 144 cm Colour – Optic
Composition: 45% Cotton, 55% Hemp.
A textured close weave.
There’s a great list of very positive features associated with weaving hemp into a fabric:
The more you wash and wear it, the softer it becomes. The resulting feel offers a superb fluid drape and luxurious finish.
It’s breathable. Ideal on hot days or wearing in a stuffy office, but warm enough to keep you cosy in the winter.
It has anti-bacterial properties and is quite resistant to moths and insects.
As a natural fibre, it’s biodegradable.
Care: Wash at a cool 30º – 40º
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The processes involved in digital textile printing causes the original fabric to shrink. If you are printing scarves, the size of the finished product will be important to you. For example, if you have square artwork, you will be expecting your finished scarf to be square!
To get the printed fabric closer to the size you need, all fabric intended for scarves must go through an extra step to reshape it. Please allow extra time on your deadlines to allow for this process.
Let us introduce you to the …
The stenter is an enormous piece of machinery that has many uses, including coating our fabrics and reshaping scarf orders.
After travelling through a solution to soften the fabric, it then passes over a flat bed, gripped on the selvedge edges to pull it back into shape.
It’s a long and precise process that needs to be carefully monitored.
If you have selected to use our hemming service, we will check the stentered fabric for you before we begin to finish your scarves. If you are not using our service, it’s up to you to check the size BEFORE you cut out the individual scarves from the fabric length. We cannot re-size after your scarves have been cut out.
