• Fibre flax and linseed growers from seed to cloth

    Fibre flax & linseed growers from seed to textile

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  • Suppliers of flax seed, straw and fibres

    Suppliers of flax seed fibres and straw.

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    Advice and training on flax culture and processing to growers, colleges, universities and research.

    We have been growing flax for 17 years both conventionally and organically working on areas from 1 square metre to 100's of acres.

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  • Wooden hand tools to suit artisan growers

    Small hand blocks to area of 1 - 20 mtr, combined break scutching hackle unit and roller break.

    All designed and made at flaxland uk

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  • Flax growing and processing workshops in Stroud

    One day course preparing fibres introduction to spinning.

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  • Spinning course, drop spindle, great wheel, flyer wheel Dreaming Robots.

    Ideal for beginners and experinced. we WILL get you spinning.

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  • Travelling workshops and presentations for large groups

    Travelling workshops and presentations for large groups

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    Makers of artist canvas and bespoke yarns. Explorations of sailcloth and net making.

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  • New uses for flax and linseed straw.

    Flaxland evolution composite collaboration. Ultra light canoe featured at Composites Europe Show  Stutgart 2011

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  • Exhibition and demonstrations, country shows, festivals.

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Flax seed for growing   2025 seed now available, processing, spinning, educating, processing tools, retted straw, scutched fibres, hand hackled stricks

hand spun yarns 1 - 60 lea .

Established 2008

Flax is one of our oldest crops grown in the British Isles since the bronze age, its stems produce one of the strongest and most versatile plant fibres. The nutritional value of its seeds, the quality of its oil extracted from them have multiple uses both around the home and in industry. Flax is a crop which transcends time, nations and cultures and is set for a renaissance as the world seeks to adjust our creative and industrial endeavours rediscovering the benefits of natural home grown fibres, oils and foods.

Workshops courses

 Workshops for both flax processing and spinning at our studio in Stroud, Gloucestershire and we are also happy to discuss running workshops at other locations.

We can get you spinning.


Shop for seeds, kits and supplies

Since the UK no longer have a home grown linen industry  we have reconstructed traditional cottage industry type tools which we supply to growers to help process flax. With a range of tools to fit a budget of a grower growing a couple of square metres up to an acre or more.

How to grow textiles

Growing flax to make linen is often compared to making wine from grapes - every stage of the process influences the end product

 BBC Country file    (see Maritime crafts at sea page) visits flaxland's new studio in 2018, Sean Fletcher inspects our homegrown, spun and woven Cotswold Linen.



Our own home spun and woven artist canvas.

We are making a series of home grown spun and woven artists canvas to commission a number of maritime artists who are making their living around the sea yet have links to an ancestral past.  In essence artistic snap shots of working life around Britain in the 21c very much in the same way  J.M.W. Turner and other artists recorded rural and maritime occupations on their tours of the British Isles and Europe.

 


Concept and original Irish Curragh larch and ash frame, linen and flax fabric.

 

Video 2009 North Devon Coast

Irish curragh we built larch, ash, frame flax fabric hull.

Curragh building is classed as a "Critically endangered"  by the

Heritage Crafts