Emily McCumberMay 23, 2020From Flax to Linen: The making of a dressI received some funding from ArtsNB in January 2019. This was so exciting. I proposed a project and was granted funding to make it...
Emily McCumberSep 6, 2019Scutched Flax fibreMy dad has been working hard to process our flax in to beautiful hackled fibre. For now, I will store this until I am confident my flax...
Emily McCumberAug 24, 2019Open Studio and Flax pulling 2019In 2019, I received another grant from the New Brunswick government to focus on spinning flax to linen and weaving with linen. This is a...
Emily McCumberAug 31, 2018Another year, another crop of flaxIn 2018, we planted a similar sized plot of flax. We added chicken manure to the soil which seemed to feed the weeds more than it did the...
Emily McCumberSep 1, 2017The first year of flax - 2017In the spring of 2017, my parents and I planted 3 plots of flax with three varieties of seeds in the hopes of processing it in to linen....