Pa Flax Project

Join us for an in-person Pennsylvania Flax Project Event Series this spring and summer to foster organic fiber flax production and supply chains! Expect to… Meet existing and prospective organic buyers and growers Get connected to the emerging organic flax-to-linen industry in Pennsylvania Learn about: How fiber flax fits into organic rotations How fiber flax is processed from field to spinnable fiber Opportunities through PA Flax Project's cooperative business model Organic certification requirements Technical assistance opportunities during organic transition This event will take place in both Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation. Spanish-only, English-only, and bilingual speakers are all invited

Join us to watch fiber flax transform before your eyes!Come to the Wyck Historic House and Garden to learn how linen is made! The Pennsylvania Flax Project will lead a workshop demonstrating how fiber flax can be hand processed in a matter of minutes.If you are a participant of the Square Yard Project, this is a great opportunity to turn your crop into spinnable fiber.

Cait Nolan will host a hand processing workshop at her Dye Studio and Garden - Location provided after registration.Cait Nolan is an artist, educator, and gardener who makes quilts using fabrics that she dyes with plants she foraged. The Pennsylvania Flax Project is collaborating with her to show the full experience of natural fabrics and natural dyes, including (but not limited to) hand-processing fiber flax from crop to spinnable fiber!

Join us to watch fiber flax transform right before your eyes!Come to the Wyck Historic House and Garden to learn how linen is made! The Pennsylvania Flax Project will lead a workshop demonstrating how fiber flax can be hand processed in a matter of minutes.If you are a participant of the Square Yard Project, this is a great opportunity to turn your crop into spinnable fiber.

The PA Flax Project will lead a hand-processing event at Tyler Arboretum, accompanied by a dye component with Meg MacCurtain!Come to Tyler Arboretum to learn how linen is made! The Pennsylvania Flax Project will lead a workshop demonstrating how fiber flax can be hand processed in a matter of minutes, and Meg MacCurtain will join us to walk participants through a natural dye component.If you are a participant of the Square Yard Project, this is a great opportunity to turn your crop into spinnable fiber.

The PA Flax Project will lead a hand-processing event at the One Art Community Center to turn flax from crop to spinnable fiber!Come to One Art Community Center to learn how linen is made! The Pennsylvania Flax Project will lead a workshop demonstrating how fiber flax can be hand processed in a matter of minutes.If you are a participant of the Square Yard Project, this is a great opportunity to turn your crop into spinnable fiber.

Fiber flax is known for becoming long line linen, but did you know that the co-products can become durable paper?Come to Historic Rittenhouse Town to expore the wide world of fiber flax! The Pennsylvania Flax Project usually focuses on how fiber flax becomes long line linen, but did you know that the co-products can become durable paper?If you are interested in the world of environmentally conscious products, and what the future of that can look like, this is a great event to attend.We recommend that you bring a water bottle, as we are not sure what kind of accommedations will

The Promising Future of Flax for Clothing & Construction Materials in the Mid-Atlantic Creating a stronger more sustainable societyThe Museum for Art in wood is hosting PA Flax Project (Philadelphia, PA) and Common Object Studio (Baltimore, MD). This dynamic group will come together to talk about the many industrial uses of fiber flax, scaling production in the mid-atlantic, and flax as the alternative to toxic building materials and textiles. There will be an array of samples from linseed oil to linen for participants to handle and learn about. This interactive event is an exciting peak into the progress of the fiber

Time to answer all questions about fiber flax, including what products can be developed as well as the mechanical and industrial process.Are you curious about growing with the PA Flax Project? What about watching the flax crop go from straw to spinnable fiber in minutes? If any of that sounds good to you, join us at Steve Groff's farm on June 6th!This will be a great opportunity to meet our interim Director of Agriculture, Sergei Konanykhin, who is joining us from Russia with 12 years of experience in the European flax industry.It will also be a great opportunity for us