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Flax

Flax thread as raw material for new column frame

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The Flax table range is available in two heights: standard height and standing height.

The Flax column frame – like the Hemp chair shell – is completely plant-based, organic and recyclable. The frame is made of flax and a bio-resin produced in a way that is unlike any other. Filament winding involves winding a fibre thread – in this case flax – under tension over a rotating mould. The result is a gorgeous one-of-a-kind 3D wound column frame on which a tabletop is mounted.

The raw material

The product’s name says it all. The main raw material of the table is flax. Flax and hemp are often compared. Both plants are extremely tough, native to the region and can be harvested within a few months of sowing. That’s as far as similarities go because the plants are nothing alike in appearance. Whereas hemp can easily grow three to four metres tall, flax is a small and slender plant of about 50 cm high with delicate blue flowers.

The process

Flax is sown somewhere around March/April. The violet flowers are seen in the field by the end of June. Mid-July, the plant is ‘pulled’. This means the plant is lifted from the ground by a machine, root and all, to retain the longest possible fibre. The plant is then laid flat on the land. The fact that the flax is not immediately removed from the field has to do with retting (exposing it to water so that the fibres are released). By mechanically scutching the retted flax (that is, removing the wood from the fibre), the soft, long fibre is released. These are the big round bundles you see in the fields.

The flax is then spun. The combing machines are equipped with increasingly fine needles, so the flax fibres are separated more and more precisely. After this, the fibres are picked up and laid crosswise on a spreader. This creates a combed linen ribbon. They are then stretched around a core to create a coil of flax thread.

The production

The flax thread is put on a pulley at our production site in Emmen and passed through a bath of bio-resin. The soaked flax thread is then stretched around a mould by filament winding. The wrapped product is then baked complete with mould. After baking, the mould is removed and the table top is mounted on the column frame. The flax is not processed any further.

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