The Linen Project explores how a production chain for linen can be organized in the 21st century, for both manual and industrial production. On the understanding that everything is interconnected, this project explores how the linen chain can be a model for a new economic system. A system where it is no longer about financial growth, but about values such as togetherness, care, proximity, sustainability, reciprocity and appreciation for all partners involved. Instead of a focus on transactions, the emphasis is on relationship. Encouraging collaboration between all partners in the chain, from farmer to end-user, creates an integrated production process that benefits both local communities and the environment.
SPREI
One hundred participants follow the industrial process from flaxseed to linen SPREI.
1m2 vlas
Under the guidance of experts, you will go through the entire process from seed to textile.
Shared Stewardship
The self-organizing participation model emphasizes knowledge development and transfer, shared responsibility, and active citizenship, using the commons as a foundation.
Collective Value Chain
Our goal is to build capacity for growing flax and linen production in the Netherlands, with each phase of the chain adding value.
HOW&WOW Linen
HOW starts with the delicate blue flower and will introduce you to ancient techniques among which are rippling, winnowing, retting, scutching and heckling combs.
The Linen Project
The Linen Project explores and revitalizes the economic viability of small-scale local flax cultivation and linen production in the Netherlands.