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

The medieval County of Flanders owes its wealth and reputation to the weaving and processing of woolen fabrics or cloth, as we have all...

Since the time of the pyramids, Linum usitatissimum L. provided the essential textile fibers for weaving and making clothing. However ...

In this text I present Swedish dialectal terminology on flax and linen. Only words describing the material are presented, not the...

The Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham is an archaeological open-air museum which, among other things, deals with the education and research...

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

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