Growing flax for fiber to spin into linen requires many steps. Once it is harvested and the seeds removed, it needs to be retted.

Linen thread on an Ashford Sampleit Loom is tied on the front beam and awaits a weaver during a flax class at Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum on Sunday, July 13, 2025.

This Newsreel clip about harvesting linen might just have all the flax facts you need to know. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 10 September 1951. 1951: The linen harvest. Video, 00:04:351951 ...

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One of her aims is to foster not just a flax-growing industry, but a linen-producing community. “There are so many social and cultural benefits to having agency around cloth and garment ...

To produce the work, she uprooted a flax stem every day of the 100-day growing cycle and preserved it in Copenhagen solution, drawing on examples from the botanical gardens’ archives.

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. Download a PDF version of this unit ...

Alvin Ulrich evaluates historic linen samples made from Oregon-grown flax at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, Ore. SALEM, Ore. — Over the past 70 years, fiber flax, once a major crop in ...

Flax is not just a plant that produces seeds rich in omega-3. It’s also used to make linseed oil, a natural wood preserver, and the natural fiber linen. “Flax has a really deep history in the ...

Once a common sight, with thousands of people across the province involved in pulling flax to service the province's world-leading linen industry, flax harvesting is today sadly a very rare ...