Canada: Toronto Metropolitan University’s Urban Farm and Fashion School collaborate on textile exhibition
“We’re growing medicines. We’re growing traditional Indigenous plants. We’re growing pollinator plants, flower crops, and then we have this little demonstration garden that shows that plants can also be turned into dyes and fabrics,” she said.
By Rogene Teodoro
The Eyeopener
February 3, 2026
Excerpt:
‘The Flax Project’ began as an extension of professor Rachel MacHenry’s Natural Dye Garden at The Urban Farm Living Lab. The plants were used for a natural dye workshop course, appealing to students interested in sustainable fashion practices.
Mika Soetaert, a fifth-year fashion student, got involved in the project through MacHenry’s natural dye class. With family from West Flanders, Belgium, she grew up around flax farms.
“I was talking to my relatives about this project, and learned that I do actually have direct ancestors that worked in linen production,” she said. She felt The Flax Project was her chance to further explore her own cultural history and allowed her to grow closer to her homeland.
The production of linen is a time-consuming, but collaborative effort. Soetaert said understanding the amount of labor that goes into making linen was eye opening. “We’d been working on this project for essentially a year and a half before [the team] actually got any textile samples,” she said.
The tools the team used are the same tools “that have been used for a millennium,” a flax brake, a skutching board, skutching knife and a set of hackles. Soetaert shares she enjoys knowing that “we still make things the same way…using knowledge from thousands of years ago.”
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-toronto-metropolitan-universitys-urban-farm-and-fashion-school-collaborate-on-textile-exhibition/
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