"Personally, when I've been talking to fashion designers, they are very excited by the idea of being able to have locally-grown textiles to use in their products." Grower Jossie Ellis found flax ...

Homegrown Homespun hopes to help revive Blackburn's textile industry ... treatment and in paint. However, flax hasn't been grown commercially for the plant's fibre since the 1950s.

The two main types of flax seeds are linseed (used mainly for oil production) and fibre flax (used to make textiles and linens ... it consistently moist. Flax plants grow best in full sun ...

Once the flax plant spread throughout Europe thanks to ... 2012 shows the sign of a shop ... [+] of Linen Textile products in the Old Town in Vilnius. Lithuania, where the delicate blue blossoms ...

Linen is made from fibers of the flax plant, linen is definitely a quintessential summer fabric. It’s widely known to be a lightweight, breathable textile ideal for purposes like home furnishing ...