Flax Collection (page 4)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 55
Coleoptera: Melasis buprestoides (Buprestis-like Melasis) [Plant: Linum anglicum (Linum perenne, Perennial Flax)] Date: 1824-39

Marshalls Flax Mill factory 1885
Preparing flax for spinning looms. Date: 1885

Harrison & Sons power loom 1862 Harrison & Sons power loom 1862
Harrison & Sons power-loom for weaving flax. Date: 1862

Marshalls Flax Mill, Leeds
Exterior of Marshalls Flax Mill, Leeds. Date: 1855

Removing Flax from the Lint Hole, Co. Antrim - a view of two men wading in the lint hole and removing flax to two others with a horse and cart. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim)

Yellow flax or three-styled flax with vivid yellow flowers, native of India, Linum trigynum.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss

Primitive Method of Rippling Or Bolling Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of two men in a field rippling flax onto a white sheet. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Antirrhinum Triste
Melancholy or Black-Flowered Toad-Flax Date: 1789

Whatas or Patukas - Maori Food Storehouses. They are elevated from the ground by posts, to protect their contents from rats. Top left is an ordinary patuka for holding seeds

Advert for John Pound & Co luggage case 1920
Advertisement John Pound & Co, compressed fibre cabin trunk, covered brown painted flax canvas, ladys purse and wrist bag. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904

Maoris drying flax, New Zealand, with a flax mill and farmstead in the distance. Date: circa 1910

Hackling Flax - an interior view of a man pulling flax fibre over a pointed base. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Flax Spinning - a close in view of a spinning machine in a spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Roving - an interior view of a roving machine in a spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Hackling Flax By Hand for Hand Spinning
Hackling Flax By Hand forHand Spinning - an outside shot showing a man hackling flax beside a spinning wheel and a woman looking on. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Flax Stacked Ready for Scutching, Toome, Co. Antrim
Flax Stacked Ready forScutching, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a man and woman beside a flax stack outside. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

The Clove, used for Removing Shoves After Hand Scutching, To
The Clove, used forRemoving Shoves After Hand Scutching, Toome - a view of a man and woman pulling flax threads with a clove. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Primitive Method of Breaking Flax for Hand Scutching, Toome
Primitive Method of Breaking Flax forHand Scutching, Toome - an outside shot showing a man and a woman breaking flax by hand, in the background are buildings

Flax Breaker in a Co. Antrim Scutch Mill, Toome - an interior shot showing a man operating a flax breaker. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Sowing the Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a picture of people hand sowing flax in a field followed by a horse vehicle. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Scutching Flax By Hand on the Scutching Stock, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a lady scutching flax to the side of a house with another lady in the background spinning

A Lint Hole, Showing Flax in Steep, Toome Co. Antrim - a view of a lint hole in a field with houses in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Stooking the Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a man and woman in a field stooking the gathered flaX. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Steeping the Flax, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of men unloading the flax from the horse and cart and another man steeping the flax in a river

Spreading Flax, Toome - a view of women in a field overlooked by a man spreading out flax to dry. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Carting Flax to the Linthole, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of two men loading flax onto a horse and cart in a field. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Pulling and Tying Flax, Co. Antrim - a view of men and women pulling and tying flax by hand in a field. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Pulling and Binding Flax, Co. Antrim - a picture of six men gathering flax by hand. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Women working upland field pulling a lint wheel over flax with horse plus two girls and a lad. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal). Date: circa early 1900s

Stooking Flax, Co. Antrim - a view of the photographer stooking bundles of flax in a field. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Stacking Flax in Hovels to Dry, Co. Antrim - a view of two men in a field stacking bound flaX. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Flax Stacked Ready for Scutching
Flax Stacked Ready forScutching - a view of flax stacks outside in a field. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

A Field of Bell and Boll, Co. Antrim - a view of a lone man standing in a flax field. To the left are buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

The Flax Plant - a view of a single flax plant in flower against a light background. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Flax flower fairy, Linum usitatissimum, spinning linen yarn.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees

Purple toad-flax, Linaria purpurea.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration from William Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Lambeth, London, 1789

Blue and white flax with pale blue flowers, native of Europe, Linum ascyrifolium.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss Botanical

Tall broom-like toad flax, Linaria genistifolia var procera
Tall broom-like toad flax, Linaria genistifolia var. procera.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis

Flax Stacks
A completed row of flax stacks for the linen industry, in a farm in Essex, England. Date: 1930s

Harvesting Flax 1930S
Making flax into stacks on a farm in Essex, England. Date: 1930s

Flax Pullers (c.1908). Staples, Sir Robert Ponsonby Bt. 1853-1943. Date: 1908 (circa)

Reinwardtia trigyna, yellow flax
Plate 1143 from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Barbours flax thread works. Patterson, New Jersey

To the right hon able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved sic rollers

To the right hon ble... trustees of the linen manufacture... this view taken in the County of South representing taking the flax out of the bog when it has lain a sufficient time to separate the rind

Flax Dressing
Flax-dressing, Halsingland, Sweden. Date: 1858

Chodenland Spinners
Women of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax at their humming spinning wheels, singing folk songs as they spin in their colourful red dresses. Date: 1930s

Chodenland Girl Spinner
A girl of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax wrapped around a distaff, which is always tied around a ribbon embroidered with many colours. Date: 1930s

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