Stories

Linen is now widely recognized and beloved in Japan, yet it is not native and was introduced as state policy in late Meiji. Tracing its arc—from industrial fiber to fashion...

You’ve heard linen prices are soaring—here’s why: unstable yields, booming demand (notably India), climate-driven disruptions, war-related supply loss, and vanished inventory buffers—plus a weak yen from Japan’s view.

“French linen” isn’t an official grade: it’s flax until it’s spun—only yarn spun in France is truly French linen. A new Normandy mill signals its revival.

Liloop, the final and most important piece of weavearth, aims to re-spin discarded industrial linen waste into yarn and complete a circular loop. However, many challenges remain to be solved.

The recycled inputs for "Liloop" are various waste fabrics generated during distribution, previously discarded as unusable. Thanks to the ingenuity of technicians, "Liloop" achieved the maximum linen blend of 50%,...

The starting point of the "Liloop" project, which loops linen, is yarn making. Naigai Textile, based in Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, is responsible for this key process. We observed their work...

"Those who really need to produce it should take from nature only the amount they really need." Not only Bashofu, but also linen, hemp, abaca (Manila hemp), and other fibers...

The problem of mass production and waste in the fashion industry is not limited to disposable clothing. The amount of waste generated by the production process of these textile products...

Flax cultivation, like many crops, requires France and other countries to face climate change. In France, temperatures were +2.7 °C above the 1961–1990 average. The Alliance for European Flax-Linen &...

The price of linen raw materials continues to rise. The focus right now is on the harvest situation in Flanders (the main producer of flax) in 2023. Linen buyers around...

The kanji character "asa" generally means "fiber extracted from plants." Let's take a look at the plant differences between linen and hemp, both of which are commonly known as hemp...