I can’t get enough of the blue flax in my yard, but it wasn’t always this way. With most other perennials, it’s a binary case of love or hate. With blue flax, though, it was more complicated.
Flax was widely grown 100 years ago to make linen for garments and for ships' sails. But its decline was triggered by a move towards cheaper man-made fibres, which were often imported, and a shift ...
The flax has since been broken ... and then cooled in water to create natural indigo dye to colour the linen blue. This Saturday, a portion of the linen will go on display at Blackburn Museum ...