Hemp Solutions bedsheet sale

This just in from one of my favourite people in the hemp industry:




Dear All,

 

I am writing to let you know that Hemp Solutions will no longer be selling from its website: www.jillycholmondeley.com We are not closing the business.

 

Sadly it has become uneconomical to source hemp from Italy and at present there does not appear to be a viable alternative which can match the quality at a more economical price. Not to be defeated, we are looking at new markets - but that is a discussion for the future and it may not include bed linen.

 

There is still stock left here in London and we are offering this at cost price with payments made direct to Hemp Solutions Ltd. As you will already know, all stock is made from 100% hemp which has been tested at the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where it was found to have naturally anti bacterial properties.

 

This offer is available until 9th April 2013

 

Single Set (90cms x 200 cms mattress) ivory or white, hemstitch or double row cord. Contains 1 fitted bottom sheet, 1 top sheet, 1 pillowcase £97.00 + VAT £19.40 = £116.40

King Set (150cms x 200 cms mattress) ivory or white, hemstitch or double row cord. Contains 1 fitted bottom sheet, 1 top sheet, 2 pillowcases £150.00 + VAT £30.00 = £ 180.00

Flat undecorated sheets available each £55.00 + VAT £11.00 = £66.00

Superking Set (180cms x 200 cms mattress) ivory or white, hemstitch or double row cord. Contains 1 fitted bottom sheet, 1 top sheet, 2 pillowcases £165.00 + VAT £33.00 = £198.00

Flat undecorated sheets available each £60.00 + VAT £12.00 = £72.00

Pillowcases Oxford 50 x 75 cms ivory or white, hemstitch or double row cord. £50.00 per pair

European 65 x 65 cms ivory or white, hemstitch or double row cord. £50.00 per pair

Baby sheets Cot mattress sizes 140 x 70 cms and 120 x 60 cms. Sold in sets comprising a fitted bottom sheet and flat top sheet decorated with a single row of satin stitch in pink, blue or white. £30.00 + VAT £6.00 = £36.00

Baby blankets Blankets in two sizes. each £40.00 + VAT £8.00 = £48.00

 

All prices exclude postage and packing except for central London where delivery can be made free of charge.

 

Thank you for all your support.

 

Kind regards

 

Jilly Cholmondeley

jilly@jillycholmondeley.com

WHAT THE YANKS CAN'T DO,

THE CANADIANS CAN

Still illegal in the US is the crop that was once the most traded commodity in the world. Farmers are forced to grow more water intensive crops such as cotton and use lots of chemicals on it and other pesticide loving plants.

Cross the border and you will find lots of hemp, and plates like the one in the photo. Business is booming! For instance, Roger Snow of Rocky Mountain Grain Products is doing so much he sent me a whole box, with 7 bins of hemp hearts and 14 hemp chocolate bars. He has some 10,000 acres under cultivation. He and others, such as Nick Smirnow of Still Eagle, are also selling copies of Hemp for Victory, part of which is printed on hemp paper (with a nice hemp leaf watermark to boot, and a foreword by Woody Harrelson).

Cannabis sativa is legal all over the EU, and in Australia and New Zealand. In fact, just about all of the English speaking world! China has just about a monopoly on hemp textiles though, as it is where the infrastructure exists for retting and milling, but Canadians have been quietly researching a way to develop this for themselves in the future. If they do, they will join China, Romania, Italy, Korea and Nepal as hemp textile producers. Romanian and Nepalese hemp is usually rough in comparison to Chinese, but recently some Korean hemp was brought to the UK that was, as Bobby Pugh notes, as fine as silk. However, it is only exported in large quantities, and not made into clothing in Korea. Italian hemp may be the finest available, used by both Girgio Armani and Jilly Cholmondeley; the latter sells 100% hemp bedsheets, currently in stock at Eco in Chiswick. But even the Armani could be finer; hemp was once spun as fine lace.

The improvement in quality is a challenge to the hemp world, and it may well be the Canadians who crack it. Something for Bush to think about.