With the hemp revolution underway, tons of products from plastics to clothing to paint, can be made using this natural material. But it goes even further. What if hemp could replace another commonly used animal product like leather? Well apparently, it can. These days you can keep it cruelty-free and high quality, with hemp leather products.
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What is leather?
In a way this is kind of a silly question, but in order to get into the benefits of a cruelty-free option like hemp leather, it’s best to go over the natural product. In this case, it is the actual animal leather that is the natural product, and the hemp leather that’s the synthetic. Though it’s a synthetic that itself is made of natural materials.
Leather is simply the skin, or hide, of an animal, which has been treated with chemicals to preserve it. Leather is often used in clothing, especially for boots, jackets, and belts, as well as for other products like pocketbooks, tools, sporting equipment, and furniture. Quite obviously, from the nature of the material, it requires the death of an animal in order to create these products.
If you’re wondering what the difference is between the terms ‘skin’ and ‘hide’, so was I. While they denote the same basic thing, ‘skin’ is used when referring to smaller animals, and ‘hide’ is used to refer to the skin of larger animals. Now, not to get gross, but skin doesn’t just stay the way it is once its no longer a part of a living animal. Much like everything else living, it starts to decay. In order to preserve it, a tanning process is used to create a non-decaying, and stable material.
What is hemp leather?
Leather is generally considered one of the better options when it comes to things like clothing, as it provides a more breathable option to fake leathers made of synthetic materials like plastic. Between leather and plastic leathers (‘pleathers’), leather is the much more quality, and better performing option. Generally speaking, when it comes to leather, it is the fake versions that are almost always considered sub-par in comparison. However, hemp leather proposes a different scenario to standard fake leathers.
Hemp leather is a material made from hemp that has the general feel, appearance, strength, and texture of leather. While clothing and other materials have been made from hemp for centuries, it has not always been done so to replicate the consistency of leather. This seems to be a newer invention. In a US patent from 1989, Tae S. Hwang, and Kyung H. Kim describe their process for creating hemp leather. Their process for creating cruelty-free hemp leather goes something like this:
“(a) firstly digesting natural hemp fiber with weak alkali solution, (b) secondly digesting with ammonia gas, (c) presoak treating either with methylol urea and ammonium phosphate, or sodium chromate and sulfuric acid, and immediately adding ammonia thereto, respectively, (d) beating with SBR resin and cyclohexylcarboxyl diphenylamino thiazolyl sulfonamide, (e) jetting through a multiple stage fiber jetting device, and soaking in a soaking bath container containing methylphenol and SBR resin.”
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