Hemp at Lampoon gathers collaborations born from research and direct production.
Lampoon meets makers, brands, and farmers to explore hemp through design, art, and publishing. Each project tests how to work with the material and assess its value and limits.
The goal is not promotion but investigation, showing what hemp can do and what it cannot. This space documents ongoing collaborations, from printed issues to material experiments, where Lampoon uses journalism and design to study the hemp industry.
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La Methode hemp yarn: color changes over time, with no repeatability
La Methode is a textile project based on fiber hemp, created by Bruno Mocchi in 2018 as an evolution of Produce Sinapsi. The latter was founded in Prato as a...
Why does Prato continue to attract designers from around the world?
Designer, imprese e ricercatori arrivano a Prato per sviluppare nuovi prototipi – Lottozero sperimenta una filiera tessile diffusa a partire da canapa, lino e seta
Hemp and textile recycling: Dell’Orco e Villani in the circular supply chain
Dell’Orco e Villani is a mechanical engineering company based in Capalle, in the municipality of Campi Bisenzio. Since 1964, it has designed and manufactured machinery and production lines for recycling...
Extracting CBD: from artisanal practice to industrial production
The value of cannabis no longer lies solely in the flower. Extracts obtained from the plant have become raw materials for pharmaceutical, cosmetic and other industrial applications, while oils, tinctures...
HempAge: The Evolution of Textile Hemp from Ceaușescu’s Romania to Germany
From Romania to Germany, Robert Hertel followed the last plants able to process hemp fiber, turning an industrial legacy into a European textile project
Phytoremediation in Puglia: new life for the land around the ILVA steelworks
Decree-Law 129/2021 recognized the Taranto S.I.N. (Site of National Interest) as an area facing a complex industrial crisis, although it had already been declared an area ‘at high risk of...
Industrial hemp: where does decortication stand in Italy?
Hemp cultivation represents a potential turning point in the ecological transition. The number of businesses and small producers investing in the revival and potential of what has been called green...
Hemp and lime for green building
«I am writing this book in an attempt to clear my conscience». This is how Gilberto Barcella, author of the book Hemp and Lime: Between Tradition and Innovation, from Bio-building...
Rough paper from hemp textile scraps and paper waste
Today, the main raw material used to produce paper is cellulose, a molecule obtained from wood. Producing paper from cellulose comes at an environmental cost. Paper consumption is estimated to...
Hemp in cosmetics and sport: anti-inflammatory products based on hemp oil and CBD
Rewell is an Italian company based in Pesaro that aims to improve athletes’ experience and performance through CBD and other herbal remedies for topical use. The hemp brand also makes...
Hemp powder and biopolymers: the result is fabric
Alessandro Fabbri and Giuseppe Guido are the founders of Napee. Based in Pesaro, after years of research they developed a technical fabric that resembles leather but is plant-based. It can...
Hemp: there is nothing to invent, only something not to forget
An activity that evokes black-and-white photographs, dusty trunks and historical memories. A husband and wife moving between Italy and Germany decided to enhance the value of a plant they did...
Hemp, cannabis and Made in Italy: a supply chain across Abruzzo, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna
Italy still lacks a structured, extensive hemp supply chain encompassing every stage from harvesting and processing to commercial distribution. According to a study published in May 2020 in the Italian...
The SPARE project relaunches hemp in the EU for prefabricated and biobased materials
SPARE is a European project involving Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Styria and South Tyrol to work on transforming industrial hemp into a supply chain applicable to construction, prefabrication and other production...
EIHA and the Green Deal: hemp as a driver of Europe’s bioeconomy
In Brussels, industrial hemp is returning to the center of the political debate as a key resource for the European Green Deal. Within EIHA – the European Industrial Hemp Association...
Green building and industrial hemp in Italy: sustainability and supply-chain limits
From textile fiber to building material, from agricultural crop to a tool for soil regeneration: hemp is once again defining the materiality of the present. After decades of industrial silence,...
Industrial hemp in Italy: a sustainable economy in a regulatory maze
Hemp in Italy is a strategic crop for agriculture and industry, but it lacks a stable regulatory framework. Between decrees restricting its uses and laws that fail to evolve, the...
Federcanapa and industrial hemp today: where does the Italian supply chain break?
Federcanapa is a federation founded in 2016 that brings together agricultural businesses, processing companies, technicians and associations active in industrial hemp in Italy. It deals with regulatory issues, technical aspects...
What is the difference between sustainable and regenerative agriculture?
Sustainable agriculture can be defined as a set of practices that together aim to reduce the negative impact of cultivation, such as crop rotation, the use of natural fertilizers and...
Manila Hemp is better known as Abaca Fiber: what is it?
The Sustainable Alternative to Glass Fiber: Manila Hemp (aka Abaca Fiber) - tensile strength, seawater resistance it’s willing to surpass hundreds of millions by 2030
What is ethical entrepreneurship? Definition and meaning for contemporary work
Ethical entrepreneurship is a productive and economic activity that adds to the primary aim of profit a complementary purpose: creating a benefit for the community and the territory to which...
Dolomiti Canapa and Canapalpino: mountain-grown hemp seeds for food
A few kilometers from Belluno, in the heart of the Dolomites, Elisa Colle runs Dolomiti Canapa, a farm founded in 2016. The village where she lives has just over sixty...
Can Italy return to linen? 100 hectares for the textile industry
Near Bergamo, in Astino, one of the many green fields framing the provincial road out of the city center appears anonymous, yet tells the story of a glorious textile past...
Fischbacher 1819 and Marcel Wanders: hemp, supply chains and textile processes
Ancient Memories is a textile collection presented by Fischbacher 1819, the Swiss textile company based in St. Gallen and active in furnishing fabrics; the project involves Marcel Wanders, Caterina Roppo...
Hemp: reflections with author Paolo Ranalli
The paradox of hemp in Italy is that of a plant that was once a national excellence but failed to enter the modern market. At the beginning of the twentieth...
From hemp, new life for Italian producers
Alberto Ziveri founded Opera Campi in 2017, choosing to follow a path that had not yet been explored. The idea came during a walk in the hills around Parma, where...
Whole Lotta Hemp aims to rebuild a hemp supply chain in Emilia-Romagna
Whole Lotta Hemp is a company based in Emilia-Romagna operating in the cultivation and primary processing of industrial hemp. Founded by Emil Cioban and Alessandro Pollastri, it works with a...
Freia and therapeutic hemp: a growing industry without a supply chain behind it
When Freia Farmaceutici was founded in 2009, hemp did not yet have a defined place in the language of the Italian pharmaceutical industry. The plant was associated above all with...
Hemp cosmetics and rural architecture: the Canabetum experiment
Canabetum is an agricultural project founded by Marina De Benedetti in the Padua area, created as an extension of her family’s organic farm, Bio Agrigea. Hemp is at its center,...
All about Hemp: the textile industry, fabrics and yarns, uses and operations
The only vegetable textile fiber that can be sourced in Italy is hemp. Scutching and retting are the two critical agricultural steps in a supply chain that supplies material to...
Textile hemp and industry: why cottonization remains on hold
Hemp can be spun without cottonization, following the long-fiber route and wet spinning, as with linen. This approach preserves the luster and strength characteristic of bast fibers – linen, hemp...
From seed to fiber: Assocanapa and the rebuilding of the hemp supply chain
Assocanapa is a company based in Carmagnola, Turin, founded in 1998 to promote industrial hemp cultivation and its supply chain in Italy. Operating as a seed company, it produces and...
91530 Le Marais: one hemp farm near Paris is using culture to save the soil
Fifty kilometres from Paris, 91530 LE MARAIS is turning hemp fields into exhibition spaces — and asking whether art might be the most powerful tool we have for saving the...
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
Why Hemp matters in contemporary art: Nancy Jiseon Kwon and Sambe
Nancy JiseonKwon has incorporated ramie, called mosi (모시), and hemp, called sambe (삼베), into her fabric scrolls and ceramic sculptures, often using threads to create her own textiles
Hempcrete: the building material that sequesters CO₂
How hemp could become a game changer in the construction industry: a smaller footprint than traditional concrete and the ability to sequester CO₂ for up to one hundred years
Do you need to apply for a license to grow hemp in New York?
A multidisciplinary team at Cornell collaborates to enhance hemp cultivation and resource sharing within the industry, backed by state funding and focused on research and education
Hemp activewear and denim: higher yield and less water consumption
Robert Jungmann shares insights gained over 30 years, noting advancements that allow for innovative blends of hemp in textiles. Improvements that paved the way for hemp activewear options
Hemp biocomposites: food packaging solutions using hemp biomass
An international team of scientists studies the valorization of hemp biocomposites, revealing its potential in developing sustainable food packaging solutions
Hemp for the future: here’s why one plant can change everything
From ancient civilizations to climate-resilient futures, hemp is the sustainable, regenerative crop that touches every aspect of our lives – from agriculture to architecture, wellness to wearable tech
The future of Ukraine: hemp can aid in reconstruction and sustainable growth
Exploring the potential of industrial hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) cultivation in Ukraine as a tool to improve the economy and support sustainable development in the aftermath of conflict
Carbon-negative innovation: the power of hemp fibers
Hemp and carbon – combining hemp fibers and carbon negative coconut biochar reduces drying shrinkage in recycled aggregate concrete (RAC), enhancing its overall performance A carbon negative crop – hemp,...
Hemp at Première Vision. The historic fiber back in the spotlight
As hemp gains popularity for its low environmental impact and technical qualities, Première Vision is promoting hemp-derived fibers for textiles, highlighting the advantages and supporting the supply chains
What is hempcrete? The Velindre cancer centre by White arkitekter
Hempcrete is a cellulose aggregate concrete made from hemp hurds or shivs with the addition of a lime-based binder and water, or lime-hemp concrete (LHC). The Velindre Cancer Centre by...
Hemp and Phytodepuration: a topic for discussion
Phytoremediation uses plants to absorb contaminants, including heavy metals – a study from Poznań University shows that hemp can reclaim degraded mining soil by increasing the amount of humus
Hemp cultivation’s sustainable assets: neither pesticides or fertilizers required
Sustainable hemp cultivation: with sporadic irrigation and no use of pesticides or fertilizers, hemp takes care of itself
