Eco-Fabrics – Hemp Bridal Gowns

Previously, I talked about reasons to consider eco-fabrics for your bridal attire. Now, I would like to share with you the most common Eco-fabrics used to make Eco-bridal gowns as well as what makes them an eco-friendly. I will begin with the most sustainable and versatile of all plants that are used to make textiles, which is as follows:

• Hemp is the most sustainable of all plants and it is very versatile in that it has hundreds or even thousands of practical uses. In addition to using hemp fiber for textiles, its fibers and oils are used to make building materials for houses, food, hair and skin care products, and perhaps the best of all of its practical uses is that it can be used to make bio fuels.

In my previous post, I told you that the textile industry is known as the number one polluter of clean water, next to agriculture because of all of the different chemicals they use from growing and harvesting crops (pesticides and herbicides) to create textiles to the chemicals they use to dye and produce the actual fabric.

Well growing hemp “does not exhaust the soil, uses little water, and requires no pesticides or herbicides” because “its skin is tough and insect resistant…” In addition, hemp fiber is one of the strongest fibers you can find, thereby making it the most sustainable of all textile fibers and it can be blended with other natural fibers. Most often, hemp fiber is blended with silk fibers to create Eco-chic bridal gowns like the one featured above and below:

Please join me again tomorrow as I talk more about different types of Eco-fabrics. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to my blog to be notified of new blog post. Stay tuned!

Sources: Hemp Bridal Gowns – Adele Wechsler; Quotes: Pick Natural.