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.

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.

Our close woven sailcloth right to the top of the picture compares well to the machine sailcloth from France  (see sailcloth for sale on store page).

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