flax

• When the flax was all gone he began to weave, and as soon as he touched the loom the linen began to roll from it. —  Italian Popular Tales
• All this had to be done in clear sunny weather when the flax was as dry as tinder The clean fibres were then made into bundles called strikes. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• So then after over twenty dexterous manipulations the flax was ready for the wheel, for spinning,--the most dexterous process of all,--and was wrapped round the spindle Seated at the small flax-wheel, the spinner placed her foot on the treadle, and spun the fibre into a long, even thread. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• Each member of the family has a pallet of coarse cloth stuffed with fluffy flax, which is placed at night on the floor, on benches, on part of the top of the huge stone or brick stove, or on a platform laid close up under the ceiling on beams extending from the stove to the opposite wall of the living-room.
• He bought wine, flax, and oranges, thus paying tribute to Brittany, Medoc, and the Hiera islands very unnecessarily, for wine, flax and oranges may be forced to grow upon our own lands. —  Sophisms of the Protectionists

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