Spinning flax into linen by jude daurelle jude fell in love with linen as a teenager when she ironed the family linens. Flax cannot be completely evenly spun.

Linen Flax Fiber European Flax Wheel Used To Spin Flax Into Linen Thread Stock Photo Alamy

Later as a new spinner she thought she would take to linen thread easier than she had taken to wool and silk.

Spinning flax into linen. Mckenzie so here are a few things i learned along the way. In wet spinning the roving is passed through a hot water bath before passing through the drafting system. Once the fiber is spun it is called linen.

Flax is a plant and the fibre comes from the inner bark or bast of the stem so the fibres are at the. Depending on the length of the plant when harvested one of the following techniques is suitable for further processing. And satisfying is the way i feel after spinning flax into gold linen.

Flax for spinning is available as a flax strick. This is the process that prepares the flax for spinning in which it is pulled through various different sized hackles. Wet spinning for longer fibers.

You will spin flax fibers to produce linen thread or yarn to be woven or knitted into linen garments. Dry spinning for shorter fibers. Linen type spinning describes the spinning process of the linen plant which also called flax.

The life of a flax plant is 100 days of thought be linen photo. The thread becomes smoother and more uniform than that of dry or semi wet spun flax thread. Linen thread is typically bumpy and fuzzy giving linen its unique character.

Flax stem cross section photo. First it is pulled through a hackle with nails spaced fairly far apart to remove the straw and then the hackles with nails close together would polish and split the fibers. She expected to be a natural but came to find out she was not.