Linen plant

You can find natural and synthetic fibers among the world's most used fibers for textiles. Natural fibers can be plant-based, animal-based, or mineral-based.

Flax for linen

Linen is made from flax plant that has been widely cultivated almost everywhere on the planet where cultivation is possible. Generally, the flax plant does not require irrigation, pesticides, or fertilizers to grow annually and clearly affects soil fertility quality positively.

Belgian flax linen is also known as European flax linen. It is made from a European-grown flax plant which is woven and exported outside Europe most of the time in India and China.

I had to ask my friend Don what crop this is, since he grew up on the prairie. He replied, "The flax seeds are inside the golden balls. Really nice crop to grow as early in the year it is all blue flowers, then turns golden when it's mature."

Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant, Linum usitatissimum L., which is a delicate and graceful annual that stands about 3 feet high and produces attractive blue flowers. Its La…

Flax is a natural raw material, making linen one of the most sustainable textiles. Our flax is cultivated by a group of organic farmers in…

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The stages flax goes through to become linen.