La Hemp as a textile material for the production of masks for health personnel: it is the idea of Maeko fabrics, which has already started to give the first ones to doctors and nurses on the front line against the emergency.
“We were scared of the idea that we were all misusing the’disposable and that, after this dramatic event, we would also have to deal with all the waste products such as gowns, masks, gloves, etc., a disaster,” he says. Cinzia Vismara of Maeko, remarking that: “To myself I thought that the solutions there would be. One day via Facebook I saw a couple of videos of old guard doctors talking about how they used to make tissue masks that were then washed at 90 degrees to be reused. And that's when I started talking about it”.
