From Flax to Linen: The making of a dress
I received some funding from ArtsNB in January 2019. This was so exciting. I proposed a project and was granted funding to make it...
From Flax to Linen
Emily McCumber
- Sep 6, 2019
Scutched Flax fibre
My 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 McCumber
- Aug 24, 2019
Open Studio and Flax pulling 2019
In 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 McCumber
- Aug 31, 2018
Another year, another crop of flax
In 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 McCumber
- Sep 1, 2017
The first year of flax - 2017
In 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....