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 ...

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.

Made from the flax plant, linen can grow in lower quality soil, requiring less water than with cotton production. When untreated (non-dyed) Linen is 100% biodegradable and so you can feel good ...

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.

The process of growing the flax and turning it into linen could be long and backbreaking work that involved most members of an Ulster-Scots family. Daughters were taught by their mothers from an ...

Linen bedding has soared in popularity over the years, and now just about every major home andj bedding company offers a take on flax-derived sheets, while brands like New York–based Hawkins and ...

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.

Last summer the European Confederation of Flax and Hemp organized its first Linen Day Paris ... has turned to imports as growing the plant at home has become too expensive. The traditional ...