The Ulster-Scots descendants of these original settlers, tended to grow their own flax that was then spun and woven into fabric in their homes and cottages dotted across Ulster. The process of ...

Totnes Grows Flax is working with Transition Town Totnes and Plymouth's The Flax Project to highlight the value of the plant, ...

The flax lends linen sheets that signature rumpled, lived-in look, though some can be crisper or coarser, depending on their weave and where the raw material originated. (The highest-quality linen ...

bio-based materials with a distinct local connection: Flax was historically processed in the local textile industry. The pavilion's gently undulating roof, circular floor plan and centrally ...

Production of both conventional and organic flax is difficult because, of all major field crops grown in western Canada, flax is the least competitive with weeds. This lack of weed competition makes ...

Flax's company is known for the first graphic t-shirt that you can wear under a dress shirt without the print showing through. "How it works is the print falls under that thick part of the fabric ...

She said people can make paper with flax and it has even been used with other materials to create skis and bikes. Ms Gilbertson said: "People understand the concept of local food and how that's ...