Hemp canvas

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I just saw this on the www.minawear.com facebook site - something I was waiting for quite a while -
as an artist, I am well aware that hemp was used as canvas - in fact, the word canvas comes from the Latin - vd. French: chanvre
                  Italian: cannape
                  Spanish: canamo ( pronounced kanyamo - tilde on the n) - in Rembrandt van Rijn's land, hemp was grown extensively; not only are the fibres used for canvas - but the oil, a permanent drying oil, was used; today, better artists use hemp oil as it dries more clearly than linseed (see previous posts on this blog, I have extensive analysis of the process of  linoleic acid/linolenic acid oxidation and notes on specific brands of hemp oil that I am making swatches of to find the best).

So I welcome this new product and will be using it in the near future.

Clear drying, good tasting Ukranian hemp oil

These are images of Ukranian hemp oil I came across at Netcost in Brooklyn. Not only does it taste good, but it dries completely clear, I tested it against another hemp oil and linseed oil on 25 November 2013. I will be trying to get information on the variety of seed used with a view to making it available to artists to use.