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Irish Linen is made from the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum).

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What plant do the Irish grow for fiber to make linen?

All linen is made from the fibers of the flax plant.


What plant do the Irish grow for fiber to make them linen?

The Irish used to grow the flax plant to spin into linen yarn, from which they wove linen fabrics. In more recent years they buy the linen yarn from Eastern Europe and China. Most of the world's quality flax is now grown in Northern France and Belgium.


How do you grow linen?

Linen is made from flax. Flax is cellulose fibers that grow inside the stalks of a flax plant. Flax is then harvested when the fibers and stem begin to turn yellow and the seeds turn brown.Ê


Where does linen grow?

Linen grows as a product called flax. Flax is an upright annual plant that grows to 1.2 meters tall. It grows in cooler regions of the world, extending from the eastern Mediterranean, through Western Asia and the Middle East, to India.


How does linen grow?

Linen is derived from the flax plant, which grows in cool, temperate climates. The plant is cultivated from seeds, requiring well-drained soil and plenty of sunlight to thrive. After about 100 to 120 days, the flax plants flower and then produce seed pods, at which point they are harvested, and the fibers are extracted from the stems through processes like retting and breaking. The resulting fibers are then spun into linen yarn for textiles.


Are thistless Irish?

Thistles do grow in Ireland, but the thistle is most generally associated with Scotland. The plant associated with Ireland is the shamrock.


How did Egyptians make their clothes?

Linen, but as this was very expensive, the poor wore whatever they could lay their hands on, usually wool. They also wore flax which is a plant fibre that they grow. they wore sandles.


How do you grow buds on a plant?

you dont grow the buds they grow by themselves on the female plant.


If you grow 1 plant with soda and one plant with juice which plant would grow first?

the plant with jucie


Is fiber needed to help us grow?

yes it is


Does the amount of room a plant have to grow determines how big a plant will grow?

no


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