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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 [...]

Linnets
Linnet

Linnet: the linseed bird The English name “linnet” derives from French meaning “the bird that hovers above linseed” [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 usitatissimum The cultivated [...]