Some technical details are interesting.
Copyright New Scientist, for discussion purposes only. The hemp was grown last year in Kent, and its fibres were extracted in Bedfordshire and spun in Northern Ireland. Now the yarn is being woven into fabric at the Chelsea College of art and Design in London. Hemp was an important crop in England until the late 18th century, as its tough fibres made it a valuable raw material for rope, textiles and paper. Over the twenry years after the gin's invention in 1770, the price of cotton cloth dropped a hundredfold.