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The Natural Fiber

Natural nettle from the Himalayan hills  Natural hemp from the Himalayan hills

About The Natural Fiber

The Natural Fiber is a company that manufactures and exports quality products at wholesale prices. All the products are environmentally friendly and do not cause deforestation, but in fact help reduce it. They manufacture unique products at a high standard of quality. All the products are made by skilled artisans. The sources are carefully selected to be 100% free of child labor.

 

The philosophy 

One mainly concentrates on the promotion of Nepalese handmade products to encourage and develop the skills and lifestyle of people from the hilly and mountainous regions where the raw materials originate from. They employ as many workers as possible from a range of social and economic levels, while offering benefits such as health-care and education to their children. 

The Natural Fiber is doing business to promote the mountain villagers where they find the necessary raw materials. The development of a new agro-oriented industry in Nepal should give priority to the geographic areas most subject to economic sensibility - this is without a doubt the very remote and isolated valleys of the Himalayas. These remote areas still have the traditions which can easily be applied to annual fibers to produce labor intensive luxury handicraft, which can be brought to the market and sell at a maximum of remote labor. Natural fibers industry can quickly spread too many villages with a minimum of technical assistance. 

The Natural Fiber is working in an institutionalized way to promote and develop the natural fiber industry in Nepal. They have engaged to help the remote villages with the legal, financial, technical and marketing assistance necessary to get a high quality product to the world markets. 

Hand spinning of natural wild nettle fibers in the Himalayans 

The Products

The Natural Fiber offers varieties of quality Nepalese handicrafts including fashionable garments, bamboo, hemp, nettle, banana fabrics and all kind of natural fabrics, wool sweaters, bags and hats and pashmina stoles for export all over the world. As well as natural carpets and all kind of knitting wear. They encourage their customers to request and suggest custom designs. Ones imagination is the only limit. 

 

Sustainability - Ecological info

Our supplier partner is continuously working with the villagers and forest specialist in Nepal. He is meeting with the village development community's leaders, the forest development community's leaders for how to manage the jungle and how to control over harvesting of nettle, to define the ideal nettle harvesting time, the yearly possibilities to collect raw nettle.

The most important topic: to control over harvesting and the ecological system. At the same time he is in discussions with the environment conscious natural fabrics buyers to define what can be their contribution for this project. From this project he wants to make sure villagers always get the work on nettle and to prove that the project is very sincere for the environment. All the users of these natural resources should take their  responsibilities for the environment. 

Out of 75 districts of Nepal in 38 districts there are villagers collecting raw nettle from their community jungles. Now in each district the villagers have the permission to collect 5 tones of raw nettle each year. In the initial research it was found that if the villagers collect nettle as per market demand ratio, the raw material will only last for five year. If we do not start to educate the villagers to manage the jungles in 10 year there will be a shortage of raw nettle.

Hand spun natural wild nettle yarn

Raw materials

Most of the raw materials such as hemp, nettle, cotton, silk, natural pashmina come from the mountains, and they are made by hand locally. Local villagers collect wild hemp and nettles in quantities that do not adversely affect the bio-system, to keep the harvest eco-friendly. 

Production begins with soaking the plant fiber, which is then boiled with ash to bleach it and make it soft. After drying on rocks in the sun, the fiber is turned into thread by hand. These yarns can be woven into fabric or can be used to make natural knitting products. Hemp fabric is a bit harder than nettles and is more durable than cotton. Hemp products are long-lasting products. These natural fiber fabrics are healthy for the wearer, providing warmth in cold weather and helping one stay cool in during hot weather.

 

Wild Hemp and wild nettle collecting and yarn processing

The workers are collecting wild hemp and wild nettle from very remote high Himalayan range. a 3 days walk from the village and 5-6 days of collecting and back to the village. They take the bark from plant and lay it in sunlight for 3 days to dry and then the fiber is processed bio-logically. The hemp and nettle fibers are then put in a big pond with water for 10 days. When they are ready they will be rinsed with clean water.

The yarns are spun in the villages by hand. Now 80 thousand villagers from different part of Nepal are involve in hemp and nettle yarn processing work. They spun about 1 kilo of yarn in 10 days. 

Natural wild nettle yarn in hanks - bundles of 25 hanks Natural wild nettle yarn in hanks - 8 bundles of 25 hanks per carton

Wild nettle and wild hemp yarn

Wild Nettle and wild hemp yarn is not coming regular color and regular yarn sizes because it is spun by hand and natural process. These days our supplier partner is using these hemp and nettle yarns to do also blends with cotton, soybean, bamboo, linen and other fiber materials.

Nettle and hemp yarns are coming from the bark of hemp plant and nettle plant. This fiber is natural and organic fiber. Local villagers collect wild hemp and nettles in quantities that do not adversely affect the bio-system, to keep the harvest eco-friendly. 

 

Please note that nettle yarns are not easy to be organized. For strategic reasons our supplier does not want to sell fibers. We will need a lot of patience because response time is slow as our contact is extensively traveling in the Nepalese mountains. 

Hand spun wild nettle yarns

Nm

ECC

System

Composition / Info

Put up

Bob wt.

17/1

10/1

hand spun

100% natural wild fine  hemp

hanks or
cones

0.25
1.20

6/1

3.5/1

semi-auto spun carded *

100% natural wild hemp

hanks or
cones

0.25
1.20

4/1

2.4/1

hand spun*

100% natural wild nettle

hanks or
cones

0.25
1.20

  

* About semi auto spinning Machine:-

This means that the yarn is still hand spun; in order to help giving the necessary twist to the yarn while spinning supplier used a little machine. Please see below picture. It is not a advance machine like ring spinning.

 

Hand spun wild hemp yarns

Nm

ECC

System

Composition / Info

Put up

Bob wt.

4/1

2.4/1

hand spun*

100% natural wild hemp

hanks or
cones

0.25
1.2

6/1

3.5/1

hand spun*

100% natural wild hemp

hanks or
cones

0.25
1.2

All the nettle fabrics produced by The Natural Fiber company are woven on hand looms. We can provide quality nettle yarns at reasonable prices. For fabrics our supplier also uses vegetable dyes (natural dye) to keep fabrics and knitting wear natural.

Pashmina fabrics from Nepal Natural wild nettle and hemp carpets from Nepal 

 

 

Nettle woven fabric Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO A
Nettle woven fabric
Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO
Nettle woven fabric Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO B
Nettle woven fabric
Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO
Nettle woven fabric Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO C
Nettle woven fabric
Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO
Nettle woven fabric Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO D
Nettle woven fabric
Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO
Nettle woven fabric Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO E
Nettle woven fabric
Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO
Nettle woven fabric Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO F
Nettle woven fabric
Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO
Nettle woven fabric Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO G
Nettle woven fabric
Ne 16/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO

Natural Fiber of Nepal is planning to go finer in the count. Next target is Ne 21/1 50/50% wild nettle/CO. We will only be able to provide fabrics and no yarns.

New fabrics 05/08 - for description please scroll further down:

fabric samples which contain natural nettle yarns

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Sample no.

Description

Fabric weight per m2

Width (inches)

1

Warp: 100% silk
Weft:  50/50% fine nettle / cotton blended

145

54

2

Warp: 100% silk
Weft:  100% fine nettle

205

54

3

Warp: 50/50% fine nettle / cotton blended
Weft:  50/50% fine nettle / cotton blended

260

54

4

50/50% fine nettle / cotton blended knit jersey

240

GSM 240

5

Warp: 50/50% fine nettle / cotton blended
Weft:  100% fine nettle

235

54

6

Warp: 100% fine nettle
Weft:  100% fine nettle

285

54

150

65/35% wild hemp / cotton

520

45”

151

55/45% wild hemp / cotton

450

45”

152

55/45% wild hemp / natural dye cotton

400

45”

154

Jacquard Diamond (Black threads)
33% wild nettle/37% wild hemp/30% cotton

425

45”

155

100% Linen

X

45”

157

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

135

45”

158

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

159

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

160

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

161

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

162

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

163

10/90% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

164

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

165

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

166

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

167

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

140

45”

172

20/80% wild nettle / bamboo

175

45”

173

100% bamboo

130

45”

174

50/50% soybean / hemp cotton
(55/45% hemp/cotton blended yarn)

X

45”

176

50/50% soybean / bamboo

145

45”

178

100% soybean

175

45”

177 50/50 soybean / bamboo 145 45"

179

60/40% soybean / cotton

145

45”

180

50/20/30% soybean / wild nettle / cotton

195

45”

181

37/30/33% soybean / wild nettle / cotton

155

45”

182

37/30/33% soybean / wild nettle / cotton

175

45”

183

100% soybean

180

45”

184

50/50% soybean / bamboo

150

45”

185

20/80% wild nettle / bamboo

160

45”

186

20/80% wild nettle / bamboo

160

45”

187

20/80% wild nettle / bamboo

160

45”

188

30/70% wild nettle / bamboo

165

45”

189

20/80% wild nettle / bamboo

160

45”

190

40% bamboo (black)
40% cotton (D. brown)
20% wild nettle

150

45”

191

40% bamboo (black)
40% cotton (natural)
20% wild nettle

150

45”

192

40/40/20% bamboo / cotton / wild nettle

175

45”

193

100% bamboo satin

160

45”

194

80/20% bamboo / wild nettle

160

45”

195

80/20% bamboo / wild nettle

155

45”

196

100% bamboo

152

45”

197

100% bamboo jacquard

135

45”

198

40/40/20% bamboo / cotton (vegetable dye d.grey) / wild nettle

155

45”

199

70/30% machine spun fine nettle / bamboo

260

45”

200

100% wild nettle

400

39”

201

60% wild carded nettle
40% hemp cotton (55/45% hemp / cotton)

850

45”

202

65/35% wild nettle / cotton

500

45"

203

70/30% machine spun fine nettle yarn / cotton

260

45"

204

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

155

45"

205

20/80% wild nettle / cotton

110

45"

206

40/40/20% cotton (natural off white) / cotton (vegetable dye, d.brown) / wild nettle

135

45"

207

40/40/20% cotton (natural off white) / cotton (vegetable dye, d.brown) / wild nettle

155

45"

208

40/40/20% cotton (natural off white) / cotton (vegetable dye, d.brown) / wild nettle

155

45"

209

60/20/20% cotton (natural off white) / cotton (vegetable dye, d.grey) / wild nettle

155

45"

210

70/30% cotton/Wild hemp

585

45"

211

70/30% cotton/Wild hemp

450

45"

212

20/30/50% cotton (natural off white) / cotton (black) / wild hemp

400

45"

213

20/80% wild Hemp / cotton

155

45"

214

50/50 %  Soybean/ Bamboo (d. brown)

135

45"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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