The sad fate of our flax and hemp processing factories

The sad fate of our flax and hemp processing factories

Diana Némethová

When we hear the words “flax” and “hemp” today, we imagine our grandmothers spinning threads by hand at home and weaving it into canvas. This situation lasted in our lands for centuries, sometimes even up until the 1950s. However, in parallel with the growth of industrialisation, the textile industry also developed in Slovakia, playing an important role in the country’s economy together with agricultural and mechanical engineering production.

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