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.
Hemp
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...
Potent Ponics – What is aquaponics and how it stands apart from other agricultural practices?
Potent Ponics weigh in on what makes aquaponics a sustainable solution in comparison to other agriculture practices and why it’s so suitable for hemp or cannabis cultivation
Hemp lime and hempcrete: green building and less CO2
The building industry consumes about forty percent of global energy: from Brittany to Italy, hemp lime could be a solution
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
Hemp Stories: Steve Marais captures sustainable natural fibers
It's all about hemp: hemp garments and an entire hemp collection: Made in Italy, aiming to present a new ‘Made and Sourced in Italy’ sustainable project
LOVR™, hemp-based leather: Revoltech’s commitment to upcycling hemp residues
Founded by three friends, the German company Revoltech offers sustainable leather alternatives using hemp residues, contributing to a circular economy and winning multiple eco-awards
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 Care brings hemp into cosmetics through an integrated short supply chain
A Grassobbio, in provincia di Bergamo, prodotti per viso, capelli e barba a partire da olio di canapa e ingredienti derivanti da agricoltura biologica – parla Ottaviano Allegrini
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...
Lampoon, the new issue, a tribute to the independent publishing: roughness and sustainability
The new issue of Lampoon is a tribute to independence: in publishing, music, and architecture. From Romain Laprade to Olivier Zham, from Joel Dicker to Caterina Barbieri, Mathis Chevalier, Isabelle...
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...
What is a purpose-driven economy? Definition, meaning of each contemporary work
Running a business means giving profit to the owner and workers, as well as the community and the area where the business grows: purpose economy is a successful strategy for...
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...
Every H is always for Hemp – Maren Krings says it loud: it’s all about Hemp
Maren Krings’ book H is for Hemp investigates industrial hemp: phytoremediation, carbon sequestration, and its potential in sustainable manufacturing practices
Producing paper from hemp – the case of Hahnemühle using ancestry old process
Since its foundation, the company has been using spring water for the milling of their paper. Producing from hemp fiber doesn’t require bleaching or chloride
Exploring Hemp in Design: Yasmin Bawa abandons concrete for hempcrate
«When I abandoned concrete, I managed to find something that is the opposite: it is breathable, permeable, not toxic». Yasmin Bawa’s production from concrete to hempcrate
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,...
Jungmaven – Why hemp clothing is more expensive than other fabrics on the market
Jungmaven is one of the first 100% hemp brands in Los Angeles: «We only need to grow about 50 acres of hemp» - says Robert Jungmann
Provoking Italian manufacturing as much as you can
Italian, natural, plant-based supply chain - from farm field to weaving: the transparency of Made in Italy that wants to be not just a label, but a value
100% female Hemp plants – the future is here
One of the most versatile and sustainable plant, hemp could explore mass production entry with NWG’s AMPLIFY hybrid trait fostering hemp populations with up to 100% female plants
Hemp Kamiko: Issey Miyake and the Japanese Craftsmanship
Under the creative direction of Satoshi Kondo, Issey Miyake pays tribute to the kamiko fabric tradition, made from fine hemp fibers and Japanese paper
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...
Phytoremediation, Lagooning and Phytoextraction: hemp and the power of plants
Hemp as an ideal plant for phytoremediation projects for its tolerance to pollution and its versatility of use at the end of the phytoremediation process
QWSTION weaves hemp and abacá in Switzerland as alternatives to synthetic fibres
QWSTION is a Swiss company based in Zurich that produces backpacks, bags and accessories for everyday use. It was co-founded by Christian Kaegi, who oversees creative direction and material development....
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
Ambra, a laboratory in Tuscany for hemp inflorescences and solvent-free extracts
Ambra is a Tuscan laboratory integrating organic cultivation and analytical research on industrial hemp, with fields in Maremma and processing in Siena. It processes inflorescences through cold mechanical extraction, without...
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...
Industrial hemp for food
A focus on hemp for human and animal diets, the market and regulations in the current Italian panorama
Lampoon, rough: from rationalist architecture to sustainable hemp
Under a microscope, a natural fibre, whether animal or plant – wool, hemp, cotton, even silk – displays a morphological roughness that creates friction, providing a mutual grip during twisting...
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
Certifications of the hemp supply chain: limits and opportunities
In Italy, the hemp supply chain is promoted but not regulated, categorized and certified - blockchain may lead to a solution
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...
Hemp: uses in the textile industry and the spinning of the raw fiber
The hemp spinning process: from cultivation to fiber preparation, the processing steps are a summation of risks
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...
