We are the first producers of flax and this flax becomes beautiful linen fabric.
When the flowering ends it becomes all greyish and dry.
It is torn out and let to dry on the ground before collecting it.
Look at this beautiful tiny blue flower!
Isn’t she beautiful and fragile! Difficult to imagine it will be transformed into fabric. The stem will become the thread.
This is the flax after the bloom and dry and the finished fabric. In Summer I love wearing this fabric but people don’t like it because it creases, but I don’t mind.
The sand from Sahara desert is arriving and the smoke from the Canadian fires are reaching our country so difficult to see the sun and no blue sky today but over 30C in some places. Better stay inside!
That is so interesting Catherine! The flowers are beautiful and hard to imagine that becomes fabric.
RépondreSupprimerWe've been dealing with the wildfire smoke here too, but not the sand. I'm sorry you get both. Isn't it incredible how far those things travel?
Flax flowers certainly look lovely. Sorry about the bad air quality. I hope that it clears up soon.
RépondreSupprimerIn the country side in Oregon where I grew up, flax used to be a crop, and there was a large flax drying barn and what we referred to as the flax plant.
RépondreSupprimerFlax is a beautiful plant. I love wearing linen in summer and don't mind the wrinkles because the fabric is cooling.
RépondreSupprimerThe wildfires are terrible in parts of Canada just now. We in the west don't have the smoke and I'm sorry it's drifted all the way across the Atlantic to France.
I had no idea about FLAX! There are so pretty and so interesting.
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