Looking for Reference Materials - Why is Linen Flax Healthy

We have created two Internet sites about FLAX and the health benefits for FLAX as a food and as products for yourself and the home. Our two sites are: 1. http://www.flaxforhealth.com/  and

2. http://www.flaxlinen.info/

One product I have found is the "The Flax Cookbook: Recipes and Strategies for Getting the Most from the Most Powerful Plant on the Planet" - Elaine Magee; Paperback; - Its available for purchase from Amazon.com for about  $14.49  I gave it to some healthy lifestyle friends for Christmas and they were delighted!


Another product that we have found are the roasted FLAX seeds  "umm umm good"  to taste and good for your health as well.

Also available is Milled Flax seeds. Contains 100% whole grain milled flax seed. High in heart-healthy omega-3 oils; naturally gluten free; wheat free Grain ground between two stones to ensure germ, bran, and natural oils are fully preserved Stone-milled in the Ozarks in Gainesville, Missouri. Case of eight, 12-ounce boxes (total of 96 ounces) are available from Amazon Com

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Is Linen and Flax the same?

Linen is made from a Bast fibre or skin fibre taken from the "inner bark" skin or bast surrounding the stem of a certain flowering plants with net-veined leaves (dicotyledonous). The Flax plant (usitatissimum) is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

LINEN made from flax, one of natures natural products is a beautiful, elegant, durable, refined luxury fabric. Linen flax is the strongest of the vegetable fibers and has 2 to 3 times the strength of cotton. Linen table cloths and napkins have been handed down generation to generation. Not only is the linen fiber strong, it is smooth, making the finished fabric lint free. Fine china, silver and candles are enhanced by the luster of linen which only gets softer and finer the more it is washed.

Linen is from flax, a fiber taken from the stalk of the plant. The luster is from the natural wax content. Creamy white to light tan, this fiber can be easily dyed and the color does not fade when washed. Linen does wrinkle easily but also presses easily. Linen, like cotton, can also be boiled without damaging the fiber.

Highly absorbent and a good conductor of heat, this fabric is cool in garments. However, constant creasing in the same place in sharp folds will tend to break the linen threads. This wear can show up in collars, hems, and any area that is iron creased during the laundering. Linen has poor elasticity and does not spring back readily.

Linen is not cotton - Pure Linen Flax

Linen fabric is one of the earliest fibers to be made and it comes from the flax plant, which grows all over the world in wet regions like Southern Latvia, Lithuiana and Belarus (Bielorussia). Flax is a tall, reed-like plant, with long fibers which make it easy to spin into thread. You cut the plant stalks, and then leave them to soak in a tub of water or a stream until the hard outside stem rots away and leaves the long, soft fibers underneath. This process is called retting the flax.

Then you take the fibers and spin them on a spindle into linen thread. Linen can be spun coarse, or it can be spun very very fine, depending on the skill of the spinner and what you want to use it for.

The Egyptians made sails out of coarse linen, for example, but used very fine linen for expensive tunics.

It is hard to dye linen, so mostly people wore it white or a tan color, the way it is naturally. It is not as warm as wool, but it is much softer and more comfortable on the skin (after you wear it a while; at first it is stiff and scratchy).

People were spinning and weaving linen by about 5000 BC, even before wool. In the first millennium BC, the Egyptians mostly wore linen, while Greeks and West Asians and Germans mostly wore wool. By the Roman period, however, many people wore linen tunics for comfort with wool robes over them for warmth, and in the Middle Ages in Europe this continued to be common, so that "linen" got to mean something like "underwear". The word "lingerie" is related to linen.

Also, as it is used on tables and for bed covernings, a common name "linen" is now used for both. This can be confusing for the unaware buyer. Read the labels and product information carefully. It should say 100% Linen or 100% Linen Flax materials.

Healthy Linen products manufactured from Studio Linen Fantasies in Riga, Latvia, is made from 100% Linen Flax materials.

Reference: Carr, Karen. "(History of Linen)" Kidipede - History for Kids. 2007. February 17, 2008.

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