Hemp Traders has launched a new line of hemp knit fabrics, that will produced and dyed in Los Angeles by Hemp Traders, which also manufactures hemp boards, twine, rope and webbing.

The Hemp Traders development came in the same week that Dallas-based Panda Biotech selected the Texas town of Wichita Falls to be the home of what it said will be the largest state-of-the-art industrial hemp processing center in the United States.

The Panda Texas Plains Hemp Gin will also be the first facility in the country to “cottonize” hemp fiber on a commercial scale for the U.S. textile industry, the company said. Panda Biotech has contracted for a 500,000-square-foot facility and surrounding 97-acre campus that was formerly the home of a General Motors assembly plant.

Hemp Traders will start by making three types of fabric–jersey for T-shirts, French Terry for sweatshirts and sweatpants, and rib knit for accessories and apparel. The first fabrics became available this week at HempTraders.com, with more available within the next two weeks.