It takes about 100 days for flax to grow from seed to harvest. Traditionally in Ireland the seed was sown on St Patrick’s Day and harvested on the 12th July.

The journey for one of Luca Faloni’s linen shirts begins in the flax fields of Normandy, northern France, though, as the designer asserts, they are 100 per cent Italian in their construction.

Growing for a diversity of needs, from food to fibre, protected flax producers from the devastation of the potato famine. Today, despite its rich history, it’s near-impossible to get your hands on ...

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 ...

This is because those regions have the optimal climate and soil for growing strong, fine flax fibers. Linen grows in a ...