Strong, versatile, highly renewable hemp fiber can truly be a “straw into gold” story in the hands of a talented textile artist and designer like Anne Kirk of San Francisco.

Anne Kirk Textiles specializes in custom hand-dyed and handprinted fabrics for interiors, and while all of her natural-fiber fabrics are gorgeous, her “Diamonds” pattern on 100% hemp truly outdoes any hemp fabrics I’ve seen. The pattern is sophisticated and modern yet has an old-world decorative feel, and the hemp base means the fiber required minimal or no chemicals on the farm. Anne Kirk Textiles was named Best Custom Fabric by San Francisco Magazine in 2004's Best of the Bay Area issue; her scale of production ranges from a few yards for a lucky homeowner to 2,000 yards of hand-painted muslin for the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.