Summer sweats settling in? It’s inevitable to feel a little hot and sticky this time of the year, and wearing the wrong fabric can only make the situation worse. So when you’re deciding what to wear ...
(Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images) Linen is a rising fashion and lifestyle star. Last summer the European Confederation of Flax and Hemp organized its first Linen Day Paris, an event ...
Linen was one of the foundational fabrics of Luca Faloni, alongside cashmere. Part of this was down to the fabric’s sustainable credentials – the flax crop using far less water than its cotton ...
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 ...