Flax springs up in loose stands across the open meadows of the isles, its slender stalks swaying under crowns of pale blue flowers. Beneath that delicate bloom hides the plant's real gift: long, tough strands running the length of each stem, yielding 

Drawn from the stems of wild flax, these fibers are long, pale, and surprisingly strong for how fine they look. Left as they are they are little more than a loose handful of straw-colored thread, but retted, spun, and set on a loom they become plain linen — cool, breathable, and forgiving.
They are the first fibers worth truly weaving rather than merely enduring: a clean step up from coarse hemp sacking, and the plain cloth on which a tailor learns to make something people are glad to wear.


Flax Fibers

Long, pale strands stripped from wild flax stalks.

 to any forager who knows to strip them.
Where hemp gives only coarse sacking, flax gives linen — plain and honest, yet smooth enough to wear against the skin without complaint. It is the first cloth a forager gathers that a person might actually choose to put on.


Flax

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Tier	2
Requires	Foraging Level 7