Linen, derived from the flax plant, is synonymous with breezy, effortless summer style. Known for its exceptional cooling properties, this fabric has been prized for millennia in hot climates.

After the flax is harvested it goes through many processes to become yarn The arrival of large amounts of Scottish people during the Plantation of Ulster helped contribute to the huge growth of ...

Linen is textural, rumpled, and breezy, reminiscent of a sunny European locale — where, in fact, the best versions of the fabric originate ... made from flax and are more textured and rougher ...

‘[Normandy] has the perfect climate for growing flax, which is widely known to be where the best linen in the world comes from,’ says Faloni, who founded his eponymous label in 2014. ‘[But] the ...

Flax was widely grown 100 years ago to make linen for garments and for ships ... where students have been looking for low-carbon alternative fabrics. The fashion industry has been estimated ...

a member of the Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp. They also feature recycled carbon fibre fabrics supplied by Airbus Nantes. Initially destined for landfill, the waste powdered fabrics, used to ...

The flax has since been broken, scutched, hackled, spun, and woven to create the fabric linen. Meanwhile, the woad leaves were heated and then cooled in water to create natural indigo dye to ...

Last summer the European Confederation of Flax and Hemp organized its first Linen Day Paris ... garments are made from Oeko-Tex®100 certified fabric and stone-washed before starting their ...