# What Is a Wellness Fabric? > A wellness fabric is plant-based cloth for skin contact, with hemp as the graded fiber. It sheds no plastic microfiber and skips pesticide-grown inputs. *Published 2026-10-06 · tags: hemp-fiber, market-report* **Q:** What is a wellness fabric? **A:** A wellness fabric is plant-based cloth for garments and home textiles that sit on skin. Hemp is the graded fiber in it: no plastic microfiber to shed, and no pesticide-grown inputs in the cloth. ## FAQ **Q:** Does a wellness fabric mean a medical claim? **A:** No. A wellness fabric is a material definition: plant-based cloth for skin contact, without plastic microfiber and without pesticide-grown inputs. It is not a drug claim and it is not marijuana. **Q:** Which hemp grade feeds a wellness fabric on the cotton system? **A:** Grade TX-A on the HFGA US Hemp Textile Standard is the blend and cottonized grade. That is the bast a mill can spin with cotton, including Supima, into wellness fabric for sheets and apparel. **Q:** Is Imperium Fiber certified wellness fabric? **A:** No. Imperium Fiber is the first product registered against the US Hemp Textile Standard at Grade TX-A. Registration is a public declaration, not a conformity claim, until a lot verification record exists. **Q:** What yarn constructions show up in wellness fabric? **A:** Imperium's journal specifies hemp-lyocell from a 40/2 yarn for activewear and swim, US hemp with Supima for home textiles, and hemp with wool from a 24s yarn for outerwear. **Q:** Who publishes the wellness fabric definition HFGA is using? **A:** Imperium Fiber's journal defines wellness fabric as plant-based cloth for skin contact with no plastic microfiber and no pesticide-grown inputs. Heartland Industries makes Imperium Fiber. HFGA is affiliated with Heartland. --- A wellness fabric is plant-based cloth for the garments and home textiles that sit on skin. The definition Imperium Fiber published in its journal is specific: no plastic microfiber shed, and no pesticide-grown inputs in the cloth. Hemp is the center of that cloth. Industrial hemp here is fiber under the 2018 Farm Bill, at or below 0.3% delta-9 THC. It is not marijuana and it is not CBD. [Imperium Fiber's journal](https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/what-is-wellness-fabric-for-apparel/) is where that definition is written out by category. [Heartland Industries](https://heartland.io/) makes Imperium Fiber. HFGA is affiliated with Heartland. That interest is stated here on purpose, the same way the registry requires a commercial interest to be disclosed. ## What a Wellness Fabric Is A wellness fabric is a material choice, not a hangtag adjective and not a health claim. The cloth is cellulose: hemp, and where the construction calls for it, lyocell, cotton, or wool. Polyester filament is the thing this definition leaves out, because polyester sheds plastic microfiber in the wash. Plant-fiber lint is not that shed. The hemp has to be a grade a mill can actually run. A bale of ungraded straw is not a wellness fabric. The [HFGA US Hemp Textile Standard](/standards/us-hemp-textile-standard) is the language for that grade. Licensing sits with [USDA AMS](https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/hemp). The wider set of Imperium's notes is on the [journal index](https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/). ## Where Hemp Wins Inside a Wellness Fabric The wins are not a slogan that hemp beats every other fiber on every acre. They are three things a buyer can check: a licensed acre, a cotton-system grade, and a registered product that does not pretend to be certified. ### A Wellness Fabric Starts on a Licensed Hemp Acre Seed comes first. Certified seed under the [AOSCA](https://www.aosca.org/) framework, introduced through [HFGA's seed desk](/buy-certified-hemp-seed-planting), is the document a buyer and a regulator both ask for. Heartland's own account is that Imperium is grown with corn, soy, alfalfa, and cotton farmers, and that the crop uses about 95% less water than cotton. That water figure is Heartland's, not a USDA national average. The acre is still a Farm Bill acre. ### Cotton-System Hemp Is What a Wellness Fabric Mill Can Spin Grade TX-A is the blend and cottonized grade: the bast that can enter a cotton spinning system. That is the win behind [US hemp spun with Supima cotton](/en/news/us-grown-hemp-spun-with-supima-cotton), the [24s/1 and 38s/1 GSM bands](/en/news/gsm-24s-38s-cotton-hemp-yarn), and [120–200 thread-count bed linen](/en/news/cotton-hemp-yarn-120-200-tc-bed-linen). A wellness fabric for sheets is that spin. It is not a coarse nonwoven lot relabeled for the bedroom. Off-grade fiber stays on the [decorticated fiber standard](/standards/decorticated-fiber-standard), not in this cloth. ### Registration Is a Wellness Fabric Record, Not a Certificate [Imperium Fiber](https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/) is the first product in the HFGA registry, declared at Grade TX-A. The [registration article](/en/news/imperium-fiber-first-registered-us-hemp-textile-standard) is blunt about what that is: a public declaration, not a conformity claim. No lot verification record exists yet. Until one does, the honest sentence is "registered," not "certified." The [registry entry](/registry/heartland-imperium-fiber) is the page to read. ## How Buyers Specify a Wellness Fabric Buyers do not order "wellness" as a SKU. They order a construction. The hemp grade stays. The yarn and the cloth change with the job. ### Activewear and Swim Are One Wellness Fabric Family Imperium's journal describes wellness fabric for activewear as a hemp-lyocell knit from one 40/2 yarn, from a high-hold sports bra to a studio pant, with no polyester filament in the cloth. Swim is the same yarn family, knit around 160 to 220 GSM so opacity holds when the suit is wet. When a knit needs recovery, elastane is a separate percentage that has to be disclosed. Recovery yarn is not a polyester body. The notes are [wellness fabric for activewear](https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/wellness-fabric-for-activewear-lines/) and [wellness fabric for swimwear](https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/wellness-fabric-for-swimwear-lines/). ### Home Textiles Are a Different Wellness Fabric Sheets, towels, and drapery in this definition are US-grown hemp spun with Supima cotton. That is cellulose cloth, not polyester bedding. It is also not the activewear ply. A mill that drops a gym yarn onto a sheeting loom will miss hand and thread count. The construction notes are in [wellness fabric for home textiles](https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/wellness-fabric-for-home-textiles/) and in our [polyester alternative](/en/news/natural-alternative-to-polyester-us-hemp-textiles) piece. ### Outerwear Is a Wool-Blend Wellness Fabric Jackets, overshirts, and mid-layers in the journal use hemp with wool from a 24s yarn. Wool brings the insulation. Hemp is there to cut fiber cost against a wool-only cloth, not to imitate a nylon shell. Read [wellness fabric for outerwear](https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/wellness-fabric-for-outerwear-layers/) next to [what a wellness yarn is](/en/news/what-is-a-wellness-yarn-hemp-fiber). The product that puts yarn and cloth on one hemp fiber is introduced in [the first wellness fabric and yarn](/en/news/worlds-first-wellness-fabric-yarn). Trust is the grade and the registry, stated without a certificate we have not issued. Education is the construction: activewear, home, and outerwear are not one fabric. Profit is a contracted textile acre that a mill can spin, which is the only hemp win that shows up on an invoice. --- Source: https://hfga.io/en/news/what-is-a-wellness-fabric-hemp/ HTML version: https://hfga.io/en/news/what-is-a-wellness-fabric-hemp/