Not long ago, I got into a conversation on Bluesky with someone who had just discovered that nettles could be used as a source of fibre for making cordage and cloth. I mentioned that I'd heard the processing was very similar to that of flax to turn ...

Two booklets are included with the Seed to Cloth kit. The first is Flax and Linen, A Shire Album by Patricia Baines. This describes the flax plant and the various processes involved in turning it into linen cloth with historical photographs and diag...