When summer rolls around, linen clothes are the first things to come out from the closet. But we’re certainly not the first to use linen. Linen is the oldest textile in existence. And when we say old, ...
The book, Flax-linen, the fibre of civilisation(s), tells us the story of flax-linen. From agronomy to economics and technology, the story takes us on a journey through time from Neolithic times to ...
The climate of Ireland was ideal for growing flax and as early as the sixteenth century, most homes had spinning wheels to create linen yarn. In the seventeenth century, Huguenot refugees settled in ...
The noise is deafening and the work can be lonely, but to William Smyth, who toils in the world's last commercial linen "beetling" mill, his job is unique. "There's nothing modern about it, I'm doing ...
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