Hemp fiber has been used for thousands of years to make sailcloth, rope, twine, and clothing. It feels like linen but can be combed to have the same texture as cotton. Hemp outproduces cotton or trees by factors of 10 to 100 times in terms of yielding usable fiber.
Hemp’s long, strong fibers have been spun into clothing for millennia. Today, hemp is a commodity crop around the globe, used to produce paper, textiles, cordage, caulking, carpets, and canvas. Hemp is a global warming solution less because of what it can do than what it can replace: cotton.
https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/coming-attractions/industrial-hemp
