Aaron
400 years ago, they were making a lot of them out of some kind of hemp. I know this because I researched a couple of ancestors for a friend who were in Jamestown 400 years ago, and one of the records mentioned how they thought the American "indian hemp" was superior to what the British were using at the time. If you're curious, my friend is a direct descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.Leah