Flax fiber

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The stages flax goes through to become linen.

So, this past summer I grew some flax for fiber. After rippling, retting, breaking, scutching and hackling, I ended up with 6.9 ounces of fiber, ready to spin (see a picture here.) I finally had a chance to spin half of the flax fiber up into a two-ply laceweight linen yarn: I got 425 yards total. The other half should yield about the same, so I should end up with between 800 and 900 yards of laceweight linen yarn. I'd love to weave it into a kitchen towel, but I don't have a loom yet. I'm…

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Natural Fiber: Flax, one of the strongest vegetables fibres, flax was also one of the fisrt to be harvested , spun and woven into textiles. P.S. "Linen is made from flax, a traditional fibre crop which needs few chemical fertilisers, and less pesticide than cotton."

Thread Collective is a leading supplier of flax fibre and linen yarns. Flax fibre is a bast fibre and is ideal for spinning, felting and papermaking.