You can trace the start of a small, striped piece of fabric to a humid July morning. That day, students harvested flax. Then they processed the fiber, spun it into yarn, dipped in dye and wove it into ...

Linen comes from flax, which uses fewer inputs than cotton and lasts longer. Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the ...

Before the linen, before the loom – comes the blade. In part 3 of the flax series, we carve a traditional scutching knife by hand - a tool used to break and scrape flax fibres after retting. Made from ...