Tow fiber, ready for spinning into coarse thread, also good for  rope making, fire-start for flint and steel demonstrations, stuffing mattresses and sofas, ship's caulking and cleaning iron skillets and rifle muzzles.
   $14 per pound

Fiber flax seed, Marilyn variety (grows tall, few side branches and is hardy; extensively tested and cultivated) from Holland.
   $6 per pound

Flax seed pods, perfect for threshing demonstrations.  $3 per pound.

The Flax and Wool Book, a wonderful educational tool showing the complete flax to linen and sheep to wool processes. Each stage is illustrated by a woodcut made by Christian Zinzendorf of the Hermitage. All the illustrations on this web site are from this booklet.
   $8 each for one to four copies. Five or more are $5 each.

Shipping and handling of flax straw will add up to 25 percent, due to special mailing required. Shipping and handling of other items is usually about 10 percent. An invoice will either be included with the shipment or mailed separately (in the case of straw). Write or email for shipping cost in advance.

Johannes and Christian Zinzendorf also offer flax demonstrations, workshops and residencies at schools, festivals, museums, historic sites and other events. Summer workshops are also offered in flax processing, open-hearth cooking and sourdough bread baking in a 200-year-old brick oven. Write for fees and availability.

To order or for more information, write

Johannes Zinzendorf
The Hermitage
75 Grove Road
Pitman, PA  17964.

Email: info@flaxforsale.com

Phone: 570-425-2548

Also check our web site: www.atthehermitage.org

The Hermitage is a non-profit history site, artist colony and retreat center. All sales further its work.

To see us demonstrating the flax process, click on: www.pennridge.org/works/flaxprocess.html