Products offered for Export for sale in your Shop Boutique or Internet site

If you have a store, Boutique, or Internet Store, we have compiled a set of products that may be suitable for sale in your location.

We have not established firm EXPORT prices as it does depend so much on the volume of items produced and packaged for export shipment.

If you send us an email sales@linen.lv with the items that you are interested in (describe either the SKU number or Photo number from the album and give us an estimate as to the number of them that you might order in the next three months. We will then quickly calculate special EXPORT prices for you packaged in bulk and ready to ship. Shipping, handling, export and import paperwork and customs processing and duties on arrival in your country would be you your account.

In Norway, we are selling exclusively through an Internet store. You may view their website and get an idea of how they present the products and what they charge for each item. http://www.lobelia.no/and http://www.lobelia.no/?pageID=133

In the United States we are currently selling through Amazon . com

Perhaps there is some other product that you have seen and would like us to include it in our offering. Please let us know about this product and an Internet link or photograph would be helpful and we will investigate if we can make and sell it to you.

We are happy to answer any question .

We work with an International Shipping Company DSV http://www.dsv.com/

Perhaps they have either an office or agent in your country location.

We await your reply with desired products and an estimate about purchase volumes.

Best regards, Mike Johnson, General manager, Studio Linen Fantasies, Riga Latvia

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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.

more information History Linen

Exfoliating the skin .. helps to create radiant skin look

Human skin has a natural process where dead skin cells "slough off - flake". But, when the skin is oily or too dry, or as we age, the natural process may need a little help.

Routine manual exfolliation is your best method to produce that radiant skin appearance and feel.

Everyone skin is different so be careful and not be too rough and damage your skin. Skin exfoliation is an irritating process that actually, is beneficial to most skin types. However, it can be quite challenging to determine the fine line between good irritation as a result of exfoliation and aggravated, inflamed skin.

As always, play close attention and monitor the look and feel of your skin. If in doubt, stop the manual exfolliation and ask your medical doctor for advice.

When your skin is dry, then dead skin cells accumulate more quickly.

Even a small amount (layer) of dead skin cells can cause your skin to dull in appearance.

The objective of exfoliating is to remove dead cells from the skin's surface which will result in skin with a fresh healthy glow. Regular skin exfoliation over time, will increase the skin's capacity to absorb moisture, reduce fine lines and diminish acne.

First you should soften the skin in the bath, sauna or shower. Next you need to rub the skin carefully with an abrasive textured device like our Healthy Linen Individual wash towel or our larger Healthy Linen body towel.

The individual wash towel may be used while in the bath, sauna or shower and the Healthy Linen Body towel is meant to be used for additional rubbing and drying after you are finished with the wet process.

How do I use a Healthy Linen Body Towel? printable version

Introduction

Greetings from Riga Latvia, a part of the European Union.

Linen has been a part of traditional Latvian culture for centuries.

Our Linen Fantasies Studio in Riga is creating EXCLUSIVE designed products from 100% Linen Flax materials and selling them world wide.

Please take a few moments and browse our photos and websites.

We are always available to answer questions, listen and read your comments and questions.

In our studio, we have creative designers working to innovate new techniques based on traditional methods and materials.