Flax was widely grown 100 years ago to make linen for garments and for ships ... are now being developed to speed up the manufacturing process. The small-scale nature of the trial means the ...

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 ...

The only downside, she says, is that it is labour intensive to harvest and process into linen, making it more expensive than imported cotton. "There are no mechanised flax processing facilities in ...

Linen, derived from the flax plant, is synonymous with breezy ... to wrap mummies with layers of linen during the mummification process. Talk about longevity. And since linen fibers are thicker ...

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 ...