The process of growing the flax and turning it into linen could be long and backbreaking work that involved most members of an Ulster-Scots family. Daughters were taught by their mothers from an ...

Flax was widely grown 100 years ago to make linen for garments and for ships ... are now being developed to speed up the manufacturing process. The small-scale nature of the trial means the ...

The only downside, she says, is that it is labour intensive to harvest and process into linen, making it more expensive than imported cotton. "There are no mechanised flax processing facilities in ...

Linen bedding has soared in popularity over the years, and now just about every major home andj bedding company offers a take on flax-derived sheets, while brands like New York–based Hawkins and ...