Flax Retting
Flax goes through many processes before it becomes a fine linen yarn.

Linen Table Runner
Linen table runners woven using a braided twill draft.

Borgs Weaving Yarn
Borgs Vavgarner in Sweden has a varied selection of weaving yarns, including tow and line linen yarns from 4/1 to 60/2 weights.

C. L. Blomqvist
Beautiful cottolins and tow and wet-spun linen yarns directly from Sweden.

Camilla Valley Farm
Camilla Valley Farm, located north of Toronto, Ont, has Belgian and Irish linen and cotton blends.

Eurolinens West
Flax is an extraordinary fibre, simple, exclusive, comfortable and environmentally safe. This page explains the processing of flax from growing, harvesting, and spinning to the care of your finished garment.

Fibrex Quebec
Fibrex Quebec is the only mill in North America capable of processing high quality flax. It is lso currently processing its second hemp crop and is working with Canadian and US textile industry to develop new hemp and linen products.

Flax Craft

Virginia Handy, Log Cabin Crafts has written a new book that covers the growing and processing of the plant for linen and the use of the fiber in spinning, weaving, and related crafts.

Flax Spinning
A class in growing, processing and spinning flax by the SCA.

Linificio Canapifico Nazionale
An interesting Global Hemp article regarding the development of some new yarn blends, flax & hemp with poliamidic finishes, silk, wool, polyamide & metal threads (steel & copper), biological linens, Cincilla (a chenille yarn of linen and cotton)

Mangling
Kerstin Froberg demonstrates how linens are mangled in Sweden.

Nordic Studio
Nordic Studio imports quality yarns from Norway and Sweden. They have a good selection of Bockens Line Linen in 16/1, 16/2, 28/2, tow, and linen yarns for rug warps as well as for bobbin lace.

R & M Yarns
R & M Yarns has a wide selection of mill-end wool, cotton, rayon and linen and acrylic yarns, suitable for machine knitting and weaving.

Rauma Lace
An excellent and detailed historical article about linen lace-making in Rauma, Finland.

Robin & Russ
Robin and Russ is always a great source for weaving yarns including linen. Their site is being worked on, but a catalog of their products can be ordered.

Yarn Barn
The Yarn Barn has lots of wool, rug yarns, cottons and linens in addition to their weaving equipment.