Here's a stunning video on linen and its uses, following production from growing flax right through to contemporary design uses. Thanks to Kathleen Fasanella's marvellous technical blog, Fashion Incubator, for putting me on to this. BE LINEN MOVIE from Benoit MILLOT on Vimeo. I have a great fondness for linen as a material, in all its many forms. Co-incidentally, my namesake, the linnet, gets its name from feeding on flax seeds. … [Read more...]