Flax is what you grow to produce the fiber for linen—a different variety, of course, than the flax normally grown for seeds to eat. Once you have grown and processed it, you will need to spin it.

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Jan 31, 2020 — A St. Lawrence County artisan is growing her own flax and spinning it into linen fabric. Ellen McCrea lives in Gouverneur and uses antique spinning wheels to spin cotton, hemp and ...

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People have been spinning plant fibers, like flax, into thread for (at least) tens of thousands of years; the first people to do this that we know of were Neanderthals living in what’s now France.