The cooperative of farmers and textile producers wants to jump-start flax production to provide more linen clothing as an alternative to fossil fuel-based synthetic fibers. This story is part of the ...

It’s a hot, sunny August day in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley and I’m crouched in a field, surrounded by mature flax plants. Farm work isn’t typically my forte, but I am a lover of linen. So when I ...

The FLAX Barn sale is coming to Syracuse. A similar sale in Ithaca brings people from all over the country, who line up to fill linen bags with the boutique clothes at a fraction of the usual price.

Levi Strauss & Co. announced on Thursday that it will begin evaluating the use of flax fiber in woven casual apparel products as a more sustainable way to produce clothing. The fiber, made by ...

Fibres sourced from flax and recycled clothing have a lighter environmental footprint with man-made cellulose fibre (MMCF) made from Belgian flax, the most favourable across a majority of the impact ...

Designer Rosie has developed some of the equipment used in the trials A crop which was once a staple of Scottish farming is being revived as the fashion industry looks for ways to cut its carbon ...

Fashion designer Patrick Grant has helped to lead the project to grow flax in Blackburn and turn it into linen Back in April a team of about 30 volunteers started work on a grand plan - to grow their ...

Leslie Schroeder first connected the dots from her ancestors to her garments when visiting the Pomeranian farm exhibit at the Old World Wisconsin museum in Waukesha County. She had a direct connection ...

Flax plants in bloom at the PA Flax Project's square-yard plot in Philadelphia. WESA's local, independent journalism is only possible because of financial support from readers like you. Please support ...