About Mallon Linen

PROCESS

There are 13 stages to the sowing, growing and processing of flax for linen. It can be done entirely by hand or more quickly by machines of varying scales. We are also exploring processes for turning our fibre into paper, biocomposites and felt.

PEOPLE

We are a very small team on a small farm; Helen and Charlie Mallon and Clare Keys (who has multiple job titles). Our wee team is supported by a huge community of people who are passionate about regenerative farming and textiles.

PRODUCTS

We have started to process our Irish Grown Flax Fibre and can offer small batches of scutched flax fibre and flax tow. Charlie has also hackled some by hand for very fine line fibre suitable for hand spinning. Our fibre has also been used for making sculptural pieces, wigs, composite materials and paper.

UPDATES FROM INSTAGRAM

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Restarting the tradition of Irish grown flax and linen.
Member of the Nature Friendly Farming Network & Fibreshed Ireland.

He sowed the seed. Our journey into flax has been

Day 7.
The first shoots have appeared!
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Sowing our 2025 crop of flax. The tool we use to b

We didn’t quite know what was going to happen wh

What a treat to catch an all too brief glimpse of

With thanks for all your support in 2024 and best

Catching up on plenty of winter jobs this week. We

Processing flax in our restored scutching machine.

What a pleasure to spend some quality time with th

The flax this year has been a great lesson in resi

Blue skies and warmer weather here have been great

Sowing flax.
We use a traditional tool called a fi

A lovely highlight of last year was when Regine Ne

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! Thanks to everyo

New product now available to buy. This is coarse l

What a special day! It was so fantastic to see the

What a great weekend of Ulster Guild of Weavers, S

We read in an old book about flax from Courtrai be

Thanks to all who came to our flax harvest day as

Flax growing in Northern Ireland…if the crop can

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