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Fabric & fibre

Harvesting flax linseed in the UK
Flax for Linen v Flax for Health

The Most Useful – for health, food and fabric No wonder Flax is called the [...]

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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection College girls pulling flax in a field
Flax growing for linen

Flax for linen In the UK Linum Usitatissimum is “linseed” and “flax”.  Different varieties have [...]

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May
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A Sussex memory of the other sort of Flax

The other sort of Flax  growing in Wartime Sussex This is about the sort of [...]

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Apr
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Traditional implements for linen production on display in Booth Pinezhsky Museum.
Traditional flax production for linen

Prior to industrialisation even small farmers grew flax to produce linen for their own needs [...]

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Dec
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Royal-Navy-wearing-oil-skins
Tincloth, Tin cloth, Oilskin

Linseed for waterproof fabrics Linseed oil has a long history in making waterproof fabrics often [...]

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May
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Flax drying for linen fibre
Linsey woolsey, lincey or linsey

Linen warp and woollen weft threads Linsey-woolsey (also called linsey and lincey) is a fabric made [...]

17
May
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Field of linseed towards gate
The origins and history of linseed and flax

The origins of the linseed and flax Linum usitatissimum is just one species of the Linum family. Some [...]

17
May
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Phormium tenax
New Zealand Flax

Phormium tennax:  New Zealand Flax  New Zealand flax is completely unrelated to common flax or linseed [...]

17
May
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Field of ripe linseed and seedheads
Linseed: flax and its other names

Linum usitatissimum Linseed was one of the first plants cultivated by man at least as [...]

17
May
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British-women-workers-getting-in-the-Flax-Crop
Old Fashioned flax harvesting

Northern Ireland flax and linen In the last couple of centuries flax was an important [...]

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May
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Book how a shirt of linen grew in the field
How a shirt grew in the field

Children’s book by K. D Ushinskiai, adapted by Marguerita Rudolph and illustrated by Yaroslavava I was introduced to [...]

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May
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A field of ripe linseed
Growmore leaflet, Ministry Fish & Ag, 1945: “Linseed as a Home-Grown Crop”

‘Growmore’ Leaflet No.13 Published by The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hotel Lindum, St. Annes-on-Sea, [...]

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