Love of Wrinkled Linen in India Brightens Europe Flax Fields
Love of Linen in India Brightens European Flax Fields
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Pascal Prevost skims his fingers over blue flowers in a flax field in Normandy. Soon, the bright stems will end up as chic shirts in faraway Mumbai or Delhi.
Prevost is one of 6,000 flax growers in France who supply 60 percent of the raw material for the world’s linen, the fabric of wrinkly bed sheets and summer suits.