Seaweed Sweaters
Featured in Popular Science Monthly, June 1921
Seaweed is the latest victim of economists; new uses for it are being found constantly. The picture above shows it in its latest form — clothing.
Both the sweater and the pair of stockings that the girl is holding were made from seaweed that grows in China. Yet they look not unlike woolen garments.
Pine-needles are also being pressed into service; and so are many grasses and leaves. At a recent exhibition of the Commerce Bureau in the Customs House in New York city many grass-made garments were shown.
Both the sweater and the pair of stockings that the girl is holding were made from seaweed that grows in China. Yet they look not unlike woolen garments.
Pine-needles are also being pressed into service; and so are many grasses and leaves. At a recent exhibition of the Commerce Bureau in the Customs House in New York city many grass-made garments were shown.
Comments
Yesterday, Clothes made of sea grass. Today, Clothes made of hemp fiber! The more things change, The more they remain the same! :lol: :coolsmile:
Posted by Tyrusguy on 01/10/14 at 08:39 AM
Hemp is a miracle fiber if only it wasn't pot in disguise.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/10/14 at 10:19 AM
People have been making things out of hemp, and smokin´ it, since the beginning of time. Just goes to show how good it is.
Posted by F.U.D. on 01/10/14 at 12:58 PM
Corporate greed started that prohibition as well.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/10/14 at 02:19 PM
@Expat : We got a guy the other night who had 10 kilos of super compressed Hawaiian weed. It was mostly orange/golden/some green. It's in the property room now. Or was it 8 kilos or 5 kilos. I know I can't remember anymore. (Just kidding on the amount going down ... seriously)
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 01/10/14 at 07:01 PM
BD, Colorado needs some supplies and maybe you're city could use a quick infusion of cash. It's the capitalist's way.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/10/14 at 11:43 PM
Expat: and the hippie's. Isn't it beautiful when two sides of the political spectrum are so in agreement?
A company near me is making (or was, it doesn't seem to have caught on greatly) cloth out of nettle stalks. It makes sense, the stuff grows anywhere - on this sea clay you can't stop it growing if you want to - and doesn't sting once it's been heckled.
A company near me is making (or was, it doesn't seem to have caught on greatly) cloth out of nettle stalks. It makes sense, the stuff grows anywhere - on this sea clay you can't stop it growing if you want to - and doesn't sting once it's been heckled.
Posted by Richard Bos on 01/12/14 at 08:01 AM
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Category: Fashion | 1920s