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PROGRAM: LINEN - From Seed to Garment  with Nancy Van Tassel and Vilija Deutschman The lovely flax plant Two of our own Treadles members have been working with flax and linen for a number of years now. Nancy Van Tassel has had a fun and successful time growing her own flax to process into linen. She will talk about her successes, failures and give pointers on what it takes to try it yourself. She has also had an article about the process published in the Ashford's publication, The Wheel.  Vilija has been spinning and weaving with linen since her days working at Conner Prairie Living History Museum  in Indiana where the whole process was a part of the 1836 farmstead display. She will demonstrate different ways to dress a distaff, how to spin line flax even if you don't have a distaff, talk a bit about woven linen cloth, as well as give pointers on spinning flax into linen. Flax in various stages of preparation Bring your own wheel to give it a try. You will have a chance t...