A white woman's hand (with a bandaid) holds a coil of winter retted hemp fiber.

I'm winter retting some of my hemp this year. Here is the bast fiber from a single stalk of Futura 83 hemp. I think it's still a bit under retted. Staple length is more than 2 meters!

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