Spencer Marchand and Dakota Linen Co. aim to boost local agriculture and sustainability, bring new market opportunities to ...

Growing your own fiber to spin and weave into fabric for clothes is an exciting endeavor. However, it requires many skills that are no longer the norm. We have to relearn what and how to grow, how to ...

Working at the history center is a very energetic and exciting place where people bring their passions of the past into action. I am always impressed by our many demonstrators who bring their ...

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A metal comb is one tool used to break flax down for processing into linen. Off a side road in Durham, a barn that belongs to the University of New Hampshire houses some unique devices from days gone ...

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.

Growing flax and transforming it into linen is one of the oldest ways people made fabric to sew into clothes. Patricia Bishop, a farmer from the Annapolis Valley, is pioneering the rebirth of the old ...

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The Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp is committed to providing reliable environmental impact data on European Flax™ fibre representing 3/4 of world Flax fibre production, with its specificities ...