After the grow and mow this is the first treatment for flax to become linen. We call it , and it is : rotten.
Flax fibers are used to make linen. The Latin species name usitatissimum means "most useful".
Flax fibers are taken from the stem of the plant, and are two to three times as strong as those of cotton. Additionally, flax fibers are naturally smooth and straight. Europe and North America depended on flax for vegetable-based cloth until the 19th century, when cotton overtook flax as the most common plant used for making rag-based paper (Wikipedia)
Something to think about. didn't know linen can be made from these plants. learned something new. lovely field in front of a row of so many trees. fav.
I recall your beautiful photo of the flax flowers, and this is gorgeous, too! I must send you a photo I recently took of a woman "working" the flax fibers to start making them useful... She was showing how it was done in the late 1700s, but I don't know if it's still done in that way...
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