. The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed. SPECIMENS OF NORTH DAKOTA GROWN RUSSIAN SEED-FLAX. CUTTING HEMP (From illustrations furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 25 and will take more readily than cotton a variety of colorsby dyeing. The ultimate filaments vary from one six hundred andfiftieth to one five thousandth of an inch, are hollow, thick-walled, and nearly solid cylindrical cells, terminated byexceedingly attenuated points. They are semi-transparent,o
. The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed. SPECIMENS OF NORTH DAKOTA GROWN RUSSIAN SEED-FLAX. CUTTING HEMP (From illustrations furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 25 and will take more readily than cotton a variety of colorsby dyeing. The ultimate filaments vary from one six hundred andfiftieth to one five thousandth of an inch, are hollow, thick-walled, and nearly solid cylindrical cells, terminated byexceedingly attenuated points. They are semi-transparent,of a silky lustre, and under the microscope the walls of thetube appear like a double line through the centre. Thecells are jointed like stalks of bamboo. When the fibreis separated, it is either dressed flax or tow. The seeds,small and glossy green, are called linseed, and furnish thelinseed oil of commerce. As the gum joining the matureflax fibres is insoluble by methods that are profitable, thethread for linen cloth is made from the green flax. If theseed is allowed to mature as a source of oil, the flax strawis useless for linen; for all attempts to utilize flax strawhave as
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