Eileen Blackmore – Local Value Chain Discussion: from plastic soup to vegetable soup > linen textiles from locally grown flax

In this value chain discussion, various links in the chain enter into dialogue with each other. This highlights the unique collaboration and discusses the developments of our linen: from initiator to farmer and from producer to designer.
Eileen Blackmore is the founder of House of Design, in which circular system changes are designed. One of these circular systems is the Wad van Waarde program, in which steps are taken ‘from plastic soup to vegetable soup’. For Wad van Waarde, House of Design has set up a local value chain from flax to linen textiles to soil. To this end, Eileen, together with the growers of the Waadrâne collective and Regiodeal Natuur Inclusieve Landbouw, has reduced the cultivation of flax in the Northern Netherlands and the chain of growing, processing, spinning, weaving and sewing within a distance of one day’s drive.