What is a hemp blend, and why we don't print a percentage yet

What a blend is

A blend is a cloth made from more than one fiber. Hemp fiber is spun into yarn together with at least one other fiber, and that yarn is woven or knitted into cloth. The other fiber might be cotton, linen, or a synthetic.

Once the yarn is spun, the fibers share one cloth. The word blend tells you that hemp is present. It does not tell you how much hemp is present. Two cloths can both be called hemp blends and be very different garments: one mostly hemp, one mostly something else. The percentage is the fact that separates them, and a percentage is a fact about specific goods, not about a word.

Why brands blend hemp

There are three plain reasons, and none of them is a secret.

Hand. Hand is the textile word for how a cloth feels and falls. Hemp yarn can feel firm when new, and blending changes the hand of the cloth.

Yarn availability. Hemp yarn in a given weight and count is less common than cotton or polyester yarn. A mill blends with what it can actually source.

Cost. Hemp yarn often costs more than the alternative. A blend lets a mill build a workable, sewable cloth at a price people will pay for a daily garment.

What Batch 01 prints, and what it waits for

Every Batch 01 page prints the same fiber line: hemp blend, fiber percentage not confirmed. That is deliberate. The percentage we print has to come from the factory, confirmed on the actual goods we are making. Not from a brochure, not from a supplier's stock list, not from what a similar shirt says.

When that confirmation is in hand, the number goes on the pages and on the label. Until then, any number we printed would be a guess wearing a spec's clothes. The Batch 01 spec sheet keeps the fiber-percentage row blank on purpose.

What we will not guess

A blend is not automatically 100% hemp, and a blend is not automatically plastic-free. The other fiber might be a plant fiber such as cotton. It might be a synthetic. We do not know yet which one Batch 01 uses, so we will not guess in either direction. The honest sentence is the shorter one: hemp blend, percentage not confirmed.

The Men's Air Weave Tee is the clearest example. Its page says hemp blend and stops there. The longer account of why we chose a blend over a polyester tee is in the hemp blend note.

The checkout styles and their prices are on the shop page. When the factory confirms the fiber, these pages will carry the number. Not before.