A metal comb is one tool used to break flax down for processing into linen. Off a side road in Durham, a barn that belongs to the University of New Hampshire houses some unique devices from days gone ...

Carry out a class visit to find out more about the linen industry. The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum contains the Gorticashel Flax-scutching Mill (scutching is the process of extracting the linen ...

Nearly every patient who enters a hospital comes in contact with its linens: towels, sheets, patient gowns and more. And while a number of organizations have guidelines about how such linens should be ...

Who said wrinkles are bad? Dive into the world of linen fabric—the breathable, eco-chic trend that’s stealing hearts (closets ...

The climate of Ireland was ideal for growing flax and as early as the sixteenth century, most homes had spinning wheels to create linen yarn. In the seventeenth century, Huguenot refugees settled in ...

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