It takes about 100 days for flax to grow from seed to harvest. Traditionally in Ireland the seed was sown on St Patrick’s Day and harvested on the 12th July.

Textiles Tutor Niki Taylor sports a linen top using dyed fibre It takes around 100 days to grow flax from seed to harvest, which may make it attractive for Scotland's shorter growing season.

Homegrown Homespun hopes to help revive Blackburn's textile industry, by producing linen clothes locally - from growing the flax to making the garments. "The idea with Homegrown Homespun is to ...

The journey for one of Luca Faloni’s linen shirts begins in the flax fields of Normandy, northern France, though, as the designer asserts, they are 100 per cent Italian in their construction.

As people become more aware of environmental issues, designers and consumers are now starting to look for more sustainable fabrics and materials such as linen and flax. Flax, the plant that linen ...

Here, I’ll take you through everything you need to know about growing and caring for Red Flax, including planting, soil considerations, light preferences, feeding, pruning, and over-winter care.

Long after the sweltering heat of summer is a distant memory, Heidi Barr is still thinking about light and airy linen — or at least about growing flax, from which linen is made. Barr, a textile artist ...