Flax

It is dull for me, grandmother, to sit idly hour by hour. My hands want work to do. Go, therefore, and buy me some flax, the best and finest to be found anywhere, and at least I can spin.

I eat bread covered with flax seeds, which end up all over the table.

The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled; but the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.

The mountain ash is blooming. It's time to sow flax.

New Zealand students have developed sustainable materials made from cabbage tree leaves and flax that could soon be used to make high-performance skis, kayaks and skateboards.

A change from jute to hemp or flax in the manufacture of bagging (it would only be a return to these fibers), could it be brought about, would mean an advantage of at least three million dollars to our farmers.

Can cats have flax milk?

During this period, there was also a growing market for flax, hemp and cotton.

An international team of researchers has found evidence that humans in what is now Georgia were using flax some 30,000 years ago.