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ヘンプ建材

The first Boards made by Curator for the traveling museum, with and without glue binder.

Perforated bread pan mold & Pressing board with finished untrimmed board.

FOOD, CLOTHING, AND SHELTER, could be called the big three creature comforts. Hemp can help in all three categories. Some building materials are relatively new owing to the machinery necessary to produce modern pressboard or plastics, but some are hundreds, some are thousands of years old.

Since the first woven fabric in antiquity was thought to be hemp, it is very likely that a hemp woven canvas tarp tossed across a hemp rope secured to two trees sheltered early hunters from the rain and made the first hemp shelter.

Tent City at the Hotel Coronado on Coronado Island, San Diego, Calif. Established in 1902, Tent City was a popular vacation spot until its closure in 1939. From a painting by Sue Tushingham McNary. Copyright, STM Editions. Museum postcard.

Company J, Army tents at Leon Springs, Texas, date on postcard Sept. 9, 1916. Museum postcard.

All the white in the picture is from hemp wagon covers and hemp tents of this Civil War encampment, 1862. Hemp Museum framed page, 14 X 16 inches.

From the paper room we know the Chinese discovered wallpaper, and that it was introduced into Europe from China by Spanish and Dutch traders. Cabinets, bookcases, chairs were made of paper in 1772. In 1788, an English patent was issued to Charles Ducrest for his invention of "making paper for the building of houses, bridges, etc."

Building paper was first used in America after the Chicago fire left thousands homeless. The building or lining paper was composed of waste paper and straw. In 1895, a church made of paper was built in the village of Downham-in-the-Isle, England. The building material was compressed brown paper reinforced with wire.

Chris Conrad, in Hemp, Lifeline to the Future, tells us that Compressed Agricultural Fiberboard (CAF) was invented in Sweden in 1935, using a combination of high temperature and pressure.

Modern medium density fiberboard now made of tree wood pulp, can also be made of hemp (shown left). The museum samples were cut from a standard 4 foot X 8 foot sheet of 3/4 inch board.

Hemp: A New Crop with New Uses for North America

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