Growing flax to process into linen was a common activity on homesteads before the Industrial Revolution. In fact, a quarter acre per person might have been planted to take care of clothing and other ...

Growing flax for fiber to spin into linen requires many steps. Once it is harvested and the seeds removed, it needs to be retted. Retting flax is the process of freeing the flax fibers from between ...

Watch the following video clips that show the processes used to produce linen today and in the past. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit ...