Category Archives: Materials

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Linseed: Artists’ Oils

Any artists out there? Linseed’s (flax) Latin name is Linum usitatissimum which [...]

07
Dec
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 [...]

19
Dec
Royal-Navy-wearing-oil-skins
Tincloth, Tin cloth, Oilskin

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

17
May
Phormium tenax
New Zealand Flax

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

17
May
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 [...]

17
May
Cigarette card: harvesting flax
Linseed & flax on cigarette & chocolate cards

Flax and linseed traditionally important crops Due to the importance of the linseed and [...]

16
May
Both linseed and flax are varieties of Linum usitatissimum
Linseed or Flax: what’s the difference?

Linseed or flax? They are the same! But there are some interesting differences!! Linum [...]

16
May