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Yarns and fibers

  • Le chanvre : le meilleur fil pour la planète et pour notre peau
    March 2, 2025

    Hemp: the best yarn for the planet and our skin

    Hemp has been cultivated for millennia, and traces of its use in textiles (clothing and other fabrics) can be traced back to over 6,000 years ago in Central Asia.

    Hemp is used in much the same way as linen; in fact, fabrics woven from the fibers of these two plants are very similar. The characteristics of the fibers are also very similar. They are durable, reliable, resistant to moisture and UV rays, antibacterial and improve with repeated washing. Hemp fiber is also said to be best suited to human skin.
    A little history
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  • March 26, 2021

    Le lin : filage et caractéristiques

    Le lin est une des fibres les plus écologiques, nous en parlons dans l’article Le lin, la fibre au naturel ! Il est cultivé tant pour sa tige, dont les fibres sont filées, que pour sa graine, même si ce...

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  • Le lin, une fibre au naturel!
    February 11, 2021

    Flax, a natural fiber!

    Il s’agit probablement de la fibre la plus écologique : elle demande peu d’engrais et de pesticides et les procédés de transformation ont beaucoup évolués .
    Elle est produite principalement en Europe de l’ouest et surtout en France et en Belgique, où le climat lui est très favorable.

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  • Laine « Superwash » ou non?
    January 21, 2020

    "Superwash" wool or not?

    Let's get this straight, "Superwash" is actually a term that comes from English, and it is also the term recommended by Termium - one of the references in translation - in French; it corresponds to the trade name of I.W.S...

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  • November 26, 2019

    Corriedale wool

    You've probably heard that name? But where does it come from? What are the characteristics of this wool? Why do we use it? These are all questions that we will try to answer.   Above all, this wool takes its...

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