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It drinks, then dries.
Flax is a hollow fibre. Wine, oil, a child’s water — it takes the mark, then lets it go on the chair-back. Cotton holds the stain. Plastic never starts.
Tsim Sha Tsui · The mill
Flax for a table that is used.
Linen Holt cuts stonewashed European flax for weekday dinners — cloths that drink a splash, napkins that cover a lap, towels that actually dry a plate. Not a styled banquet. A table you sit at.
The fibre
Why a mill still bothers with flax.
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Stonewashed before we cut.
The first dinner should feel like the tenth. We wash the bolt so there is no shop crease, no sizing, no surprise shrink after you take it home.
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It gets better, not thinner.
A Linen Holt cloth softens in the wash and keeps its slub. That irregular thread is the plant, not a print we added in the mill.
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A short line, on purpose.
Twelve pieces. When a flax lot finishes we wait for the next mill date. No filler colours, no “seasonal story” that dies in a cupboard.
On the bolt
Stonewashed Tablecloth 140
A 140 cm stonewashed flax cloth for a four-seat table that is used every night.
Flax is hollow. That is why a Linen Holt cloth drinks a splash, dries on the chair-back, and does not sit like plastic on the wood.
We stonewash the bolt before we cut. The first meal should feel like the tenth: soft hand, no sizing, no shop crease down the middle.
$168
A weekday table
Cloth, napkin, something under the plate.
A mill set is not a matching print. It is the same stonewashed flax, cut to three jobs, so the table reads as one house.
Cloths
Stonewashed Tablecloth 140
A 140 cm stonewashed flax cloth for a four-seat table that is used every night.
$168
Runners
Narrow Table Runner
A slim flax runner for a board that already has timber worth seeing.
$78
Napkins
Dinner Napkin Set of Four
Four dinner napkins with a lived-in hand after the first wash.
$68The mill range
Cut from the same bolt.
Napkins
Cocktail Napkin Set
Six small squares for a glass, not a full place setting.
$42
Towels
Flax Tea Towel
A flax tea towel that hangs by the rail and actually dries a plate.
$32
Mats
Placemat Set of Four
Four heavy mats that keep a plate off the timber.
$88
Cloths
Picnic Cloth 180
A 180 cm square for a terrace table or a park board, packed in its own cloth bag.
$186
Bags
Linen Bread Bag
A drawstring bag that keeps a loaf from sweating in plastic.
$38
Mats
Coaster Set of Six
Six small squares under a glass, cotton-backed so they stay put.
$28
Bags
Linen Storage Sack
A tall cupboard sack for spare cloths, boxed base so it stands.
$48
Cloths
Hemmed Overlay Square
A 90 cm overlay for a round table that already has a cloth.
$98
Mats
Tray Cloth
A fitted cloth for a breakfast tray, mitered so the corners sit.
$34From the mill
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