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Flax is used to produce linen cloth.
kohunga is a type of flax. Harakeke is the most commonly used Maori word for flax (Phormium Tenax). Muka is flax that has been prepared for use.
No, Flax can be bought at any time from the EC store and is used to grow flax and flax bedding which can be sold or used in EC mashes. Pass seeds on the other hand are sold only once per year, and are used to grow one pass.
Flax can be used for many things today. The most common items to craft are baskets, kete and necklaces.
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Flax is a plant that was used by early Maori to make things such as mats there is one :)
you use flax to make linen. The ancient Egyptians used linen for their clothes and for embalming mummies.
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The Maoris used various natural materials to dye flax, such as roots, berries, bark, leaves, and mud. These materials were boiled to extract color pigments that were then used to dye the flax fibers.
Flax is a food and fiber crop, but it is also grown on the Canadian Prairies to be used for linseed oil.
There are two species of Phormium indigenous to New Zealand; Phormium tenax is known as New Zealand Flax and Phormium cookianum (Mountain Flax ).There are however, a number of named cultivars particularly of P. tenax - apparently over 200!