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‘Grains of Cannabis’ (Graines de Chanvre) in a corked bottle (18,5 x 8 x 8 cm, 475grams) seeds sourced from Morocco, originally obtained and held by the Colonial Museum of the City of Lyon (Musée colonial de la ville de Read More …
‘The three friends on the spinning wheel, we talk, we talk… and the tempo passes’ (Les trois amies au rouet on file, on cause, … et le tempa passe), postcard. Normandy, France taken sometime around 1900
‘Old Spinner’ (vieille fileuse) postcard. Bourbonnais, France early 1900’s
‘The Cultivation of hemp’ (La Culture De Chanvre), photographed by F. Chapeau in Behuard, France photographed sometime between 1911-1955, postcard published late 50’s If you look real close you can just make out who I’m guessing to be his wife Read More …
‘La Corderie: Femme Mangeant du Chanvre’ (The Ropeworks: Woman Eating Hemp), by Jean Baptiste Huët (1745-1811) oil on canvas Watercolor with pen and ink “O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it Read More …
‘Women Breaking Hemp’ photographed by Félix Arnaudin, print from a gelatin silver bromide negative. Commensacq, France 1893
‘Spinners of the Distaff’ (Les Fileuses de Quenouilles), postcard showing women spinning hemp with pigs. Tarn, France pre1910
‘Le Teilleur de Chanvre’ (The Hemp Scutcher) postcard. Bresse, France 1910’s
‘Papier à cigarettes’ advertisement for Job rolling papers by Georges Meunier in 1894
The Hemp Hemp with webbed leaf, Hemp is in bloom, In the air Pollen, like smoke, Corrugated above green strands, And, like a strong wine, his breath Gray heads in the plain. Hemp is ripe, Morning and evening We Read More …