Hemp's outlook has backers seeing green
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Justin Petty of Los Angeles isn't too keen on laundry, so he likes to wear his T-shirts for a week.
Petty can wear the shirts multiple times made by the company he co-owns called Recreator Hemp Apparel, because of their material: hemp. Hemp is twice as durable as cotton and is hypo-allergenic and microbial, which prevents the buildup of odor, he said.
"We like to think of hemp as having the performance capacity of synthetics, but it's natural," Petty said.
Recreator Hemp Apparel, a KickStarter project that launched a year ago, imports the fabric from China because of legal issues and then cuts, dyes, sews and prints its line of T-shirts in Los Angeles.
Petty had a display of a few of the shirts at one of the more than 70 booths set up Saturday at The Ranch...
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