Jennifer Green makes it look easy, grabbing a handful of dried flax stalks and beating away the rough outer casing to reveal long, soft, golden strands of fibre that can be spun and woven into linen.

It’s a hot, sunny August day in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley and I’m crouched in a field, surrounded by mature flax plants. Farm work isn’t typically my forte, but I am a lover of linen. So when I ...

Flax plants in bloom at the PA Flax Project's square-yard plot in Philadelphia. WESA's local, independent journalism is only possible because of financial support from readers like you. Please support ...

Kyiv, September 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Zhytomyr Regional State Administration plans to sign a memorandum on cooperation with Novhorod-Siversky-based Linen of Desna LLC in Chernihiv region under a $25 ...

Growing flax for fiber to spin into linen requires many steps. Once it is harvested and the seeds removed, it needs to be retted. Retting flax is the process of freeing the flax fibers from between ...

The book, Flax-linen, the fibre of civilisation(s), tells us the story of flax-linen. From agronomy to economics and technology, the story takes us on a journey through time from Neolithic times to ...

Watch the following video clips that show the processes used to produce linen today and in the past. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit ...

The new name in English clearly embodies the organization’s international ambition. The Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp reflects the solidarity of an industry with European roots which brings ...

Wilmington, Delaware, Oct. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to RationalStat, the Global Linen Cloth Market is assessed at a market value of US$ 2,054.9 million in 2023 and is expected to rise at ...

Fashion designer Patrick Grant has helped to lead the project to grow flax in Blackburn and turn it into linen Back in April a team of about 30 volunteers started work on a grand plan - to grow their ...