Have you ever imagined you could grow your own clothes? This 1 ½ hour hands-on workshop on the basics of transforming flax to linen includes information on cultivating and offers participants an opportunity to experience hand processing the fiber.
Leslie is a co-founder of Wisconsin Linen Revival which is endeavoring to establish flax for fiber as an environmentally sustainable crop in the Midwest. Her background in textiles is self-taught and includes sewing, knitting, weaving, hand processing deer hides into buckskin. Leslie’s current work is transitioning her curiosity with the flax plant at a garden scale into developing the potential for market scale production in the Midwest.