NARRATIVE – In ten years, French linen has established itself in both haute couture and ready-to-wear. The efforts of all links, from seed companies to producers, including farmers and spinning mills, explain this dynamic.
The recent history of linen will not fail to inspire all those who dream of reindustrializing France. Increase in farmers’ income, development of the capacity of the scullers that select the fibers, return to France of the spinning mills that transform them, popularity of luxury brands such as ready-to-wear throughout the world: in a dozen years, the sector has started an unprecedented dynamic. The 2024 harvest, which promises to be a record with an area of 160,000 hectares (ha), is expected to reinforce this dynamic. In Eure, after two difficult years, Pascal Prévost hopes to obtain at least fifty tons of long fibers from the forty hectares sown.