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Flax

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  • Activities for November: a man cuts up wood with an axe, wedges and a mallet, while women gather and process flax. Engraving by W. Kilian after J.M. Kager.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Textiles: a beating machine for flax and hemp. Engraving.
  • Flax plant (Linum species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Textiles: four vignettes of stages in preparation of linen from flax. Wood engravings.
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Catalogue

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    Textiles: equipment for processing flax. Engraving by A. Bell.

    | Reference: 43491i
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    Specification of Theophilus Westhorp : lint.

    Westhorp, Theophilus. | Date: 1862
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    The linen trade of Europe during the spinning-wheel period / by John Horner.

    Horner, John. | Date: 1920
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    Activities for November: a man cuts up wood with an axe, wedges and a mallet, while women gather and process flax. Engraving by W. Kilian after J.M. Kager.

    Kager, Johann Matthias, 1575?-1634. | Date: [1617] | Reference: 29939i
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    Textiles: four vignettes of stages in preparation of linen from flax. Wood engravings.

    | Reference: 43477i
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