How do you weave flax?

This week we have been reading a book called "Operation Flax". Yesterday our reading group had to create  our own flax. We had brown paper and some scissors. The first thing we had to do was cut some strips but leave a little gap. Then we had to cut it out again on another paper, then we started going inside outside inside outside as if we were plaiting it but we weren't. Some of us have already finished doing this but to be sure I wasn't.