Eco frendly dish cloth

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Ever experienced your dish cloth wasn't eco-friendly enough? Well, we've got the answer: make it out of hemp! 

 Hemp is a plant that you can make a special kind of string out of. As long as this string isn't processed it's completely biodegradable, meaning it can be composted in nature as good as anything! Therefore this dish cloth wouldn't kill the fish in the ocean should it be dropped in there. 

 Hemp also possesses resistant properties against mold and other fungi, which means there won't be any suspicious mushrooms growing on it. And now you might say, "but my non-eco-friendly, low-time-use, plastic dish cloth doesn't mold!" My response is: first of all it's not eco-friendly, and second of all, you can make the hemp cloth yourself! Just buy some hemp string, learn to crochet and make one! And when that one stops working, make another one! 

 I made the dish cloth in the picture during my visit to Poland with Erasmus. I saw that other people learned to make the cloth in a circular shape, and everyone except the one teacher I told how to do it correctly, ended up failing! The circle was just too hard. My advice is making one like me, in a square shape, like a "real" dish cloth. You can do that by crocheting back and forth instead of round and around. 

                                                                                Dish cloth half done 

 So how does it actually perform? Well, maybe not as good as a normal dish cloth, but it's still usable. I experienced that the cloth could absorb water, and that the water could be squeezed out of it. After that, the cloth would be slightly damp and I used it to among other things tidy up breadcrums from breakfast and evening snacks. It wasn't to effective though, the crums wouldn't stick to the cloth in the slightest, and I had to push them  (with the cloth) over the edge and catch them (in the same cloth). 

 However, I actually believe this cloth could be used in the household still. My friend, who told me his cloth had started stinking gasoline and motor oil, but I think that depends on the type of hemp string you used. I vividly remember how we used to different types of string. I would recommend using a rougher type, and making the loops relatively loose while crocheting. 


                                            Our teacher Tomas tried to use it, as you can see in this video. 

/ Morgan

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