FLAX clothing began 30 years ago outside of Ithaca, the venture of twin sisters who married farming brothers. They sold the clothes in Angelheart Designs, a store in Ithaca.

Climate Fixers: The PA Flax Project wants to use a ‘climate-positive’ plant to transform the fashion industry. The cooperative of farmers and textile producers wants to jump-start flax production to ...

File photo: The FLAX barn sale is returning to Syracuse. Past sales in Ithaca brought people from all over the country, who line up to fill linen bags with the boutique clothes at a fraction of ...

Ulrich says the global market for flax fibres – destined for textiles as well as insulation, building products, specialty paper and other uses – is about 600,000 to 800,000 tonnes annually ...

Flax began as Angelheart Designs in the late 1980s in an old dairy barn outside of Ithaca, N.Y. Designer Jeanne Engelhart and her husband, Matthew, turned this handmade-clothes cottage industry ...

Flax was widely grown 100 years ago to make linen for garments and for ships' sails. But its decline was triggered by a move towards cheaper man-made fibres, which were often imported, and a shift ...

A trial scheme is reviving the growing of flax, which was a staple of Scottish farming 100 years ago. Skip to content. ... Clothing industry. Edinburgh. Climate change. Environment. Related.