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  • Bast Fibers

    Ever since I discovered now much I love linen, I have wanted to learn now to spin it.  Flax is the plant that produces the fiber and it becomes linen when it's spun into yarn and woven into cloth.  Other bast fibers include hemp, ramie and some bamboo.  A bast fiber comes from a plant and is usually inside the inner bark of the stems.  It's a cellulose fiber, similar to cotton, so it doesn't have any elasticity or memory like most animal (protein) fibers.