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Oct 27, 2023

Hackles and other Flax Processing equipment in The Henry Ford Collections

Hackles and other flax processing equipment remind us of the constant labor needed to turn an agricultural crop – flax – into raw...

Mar 3, 2023

Flax-growing and linen production in medieval iconography: tools, techniques and gestures

In the Middle Ages, textile plants such as flax and hemp provided not only comestibles for humans and animals, most especially in the...

Feb 17, 2023

Flax to linen at the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Background The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation (CPP) is a living history museum interpreting the lives of English colonists living in...

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