I currently have a lot of unspun flax fibres that I've contracted out to be handspun by a local spinners guild. Last fall I retted about half my crop and am halfway through processing what I retted...so I'm about a quarter of the way through processing the straw into unspun flax (it's only called linen after it's spun). The head of the guild was, frankly, shocked at the quality of my product. She'd seen the attempts of several other growers in Canada who processed their own unspun flax and said mine was by far the best she'd ever seen. I'm pretty sure it wasn't flattery either, her eyes bugged out her head when she saw the unspun flax.
