The Alliance is in constant contact with additional sources of expertise to complement its actions: The Alliance’s European Scientific Committee, the network of flax industry experts and also research institutes of the agricultural value chain...
Throughout the year, the Alliance maintains ongoing dialogues with important players in the fashion and design industries: Textile Exchange, IFM, SAC, Paris Good Fashion, Fashion Revolution.
It regularly participates in the main fashion, design, and technical textile trade fairs in Europe. These events are opportunities to unveil the seasonal textile and technical innovations by Alliance members and to support designers and specifiers in their sourcing.
The Alliance also organises partnerships with cultural events such as the Festival of Fashion and the Design Parade of Hyères, the Palais Galliera, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.
Linen, Fibre of Civilisation(s) is a ground-breaking collective work that brings together the expertise of archaeo-botanists, archaeologists, historians, scientific laboratories, designers, and industrialists, with European farmers, scutchers, spinners and weavers. The book highlights the multiple identities of flax-linen and its millennia-long history. It's a richly illustrated saga, with an editorial approach that illustrates the original dialogue between past and present. The book also highlights another topicality, a reputation inversely proportional to its weight in the world's textile fibre supply - less than 0.5% - whose international craze bears witness to consumers expectations in search of ethics and traceability, sustainable development, and a renewable resource.
Collective work under the direction of Alain Camilleri
September 2023
Co-publishing Actes Sud / Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp
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