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 . to three feet and more in height, has narrow lance-shaped leaves and branches at the top with a bright blueflower on each branch. Flax has been cultivated for thousands of years in Meso-potamia, Assyria, and Egypt, and is wild in the region be-tween the Persian Gulf, the Caspian and Black Seas. The stalk is a woody cylinder, more or less pithy andhollow when dry, and is enclosed in bark consisting of long,strong, silky fibres, cemented together by a kind of glue
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 . to three feet and more in height, has narrow lance-shaped leaves and branches at the top with a bright blueflower on each branch. Flax has been cultivated for thousands of years in Meso-potamia, Assyria, and Egypt, and is wild in the region be-tween the Persian Gulf, the Caspian and Black Seas. The stalk is a woody cylinder, more or less pithy andhollow when dry, and is enclosed in bark consisting of long,strong, silky fibres, cemented together by a kind of glueand encased in an outer bark or skin which adheres as ifglued to the fibre. The fibre, when freed from all else so faras possible by the process of rotting, to destroy the glue,breaking to free it from the woody part of the stalk, scrutch-ing to whip out the small particles of bark and stalk thatadhere, hatchelling to straighten it and free it from tangles,is nearly pure bast of a light gray and brown color, incliningto green. It is exceedingly tough, adapted to spinning andweaving, capable of being bleached to snowy SPECIMENS OF NORTH DAKOTA GROWN RUSSIAN SEED-FLAX ^K^^.
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