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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Early 19th century Saxony style flax ...

But just a few generations before -- before Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793, making cotton far more economical to produce -- it was linen, not cotton, that you would have found in common ...

Even a casual observer of the hand-made wooden bed frames, woven laundry baskets or the flax spinning wheels made by the region’s Pennsylvania Dutch settlers in the 1800s can recognize the effort and ...

Visitors to the William Floyd Estate can learn how to spin flax and carve birds the next two Saturdays during lessons about life on Long Island in days of old. This Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., ...

WORKS written for the textile industries may be divided into three classes, viz. descriptive works of a more or less technical and practical character, educational works leading students up to an ...