The word KANABO means HEMP in Esperanto (the ‘language of hope’ created in 1887). How ancient, authentic and precious this fabric is : the very fi rst plants on our planet, about ten thousand years ago, to be spun into a fiber. It demands work, time, special tools and skilled manual labour. The hemp fabric - so beautiful, beneficial and eco-friendly - means past and future that meet halfway in our present time, where we would all need a more nature oriented life.