A beautifully made short film/documentary about European Linen, a sometimes forgotten noble material used much before cotton, with remains of linen pieces from around 34000 B.C. In the last 40 years, with the appearance of chemical fabrics and the massive expansion of cotton, an easy to use and to treat material, linen had gotten consigned to oblivion and extinction, or near so.
New technologies, mixes with other fabrics and a new wave of appreciation of noble materials have turned the “always with a wrinkle” fabric into a “thousand possibilities” textile, both functionally and in design, making it the “comeback” of the industry, or so we all hope.
Sometimes Fashion Industry workers know little about fabrics, but wool can be fresh and linen can be warm, and it’s refreshing to see a video performing the process and possibilities of a fabric.
In this documentary we do: we can see the whole process from recollection to its use in Fashion, Homewear,etc, a little peek of the real life of a material that employs thousands of people in the continent. And what’s more: This video is a re-ivindication of a fabric many times forgotten and much much richer that it may seem.
