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 ...

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.

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.

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.

This unit looks at how linen is produced from flax, a plant that was once widely grown in Northern Ireland. The pupils will be encouraged to grow their own linen, recognise the different stages of ...

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 ...