Flax and LinenA compact, pocket history of the use and production of flax for textile making. Flax and Linen gives an account of the processes and tools involved in the production of linen from flax. Flax has been cultivated for thousands of years to produce the fibre to make linen. The book describes the traditional methods, when the work was done by hand, alongside some of the improvements and machines that have been developed over time.