Flax and cotton were also used for fine materials, but the processing was difficult because of the pre-processing needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.

Flax is grown both for its use as an edible oil, as a nutritional supplement, and as an ingredient in many wood finishing products.

Flax seeds produce a vegetable oil known as flaxseed or linseed oil, which is one of the oldest commercial oils, and solvent-processed flax seed oil has been used for centuries as a drying oil in painting and varnishing.

Flax fiber is also a raw material for the high-quality paper industry for the use of printed banknotes and rolling paper for cigarettes and tea bags.

Flax mills for spinning flaxen yarn were invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlington in 1787.

I shoud be very glad to know at the sametime how rough and undressd Flax has generally, and may probably sell ; for this year I have made an Essay in both, and altho I suffer pretty considerably by the attempt, owing principally to the severity of the Drougth, and my inexperience in the management I am not altogether discouraged from a further prosecution of the Scheme provided I find the Sales with you are not clogd with too much difficulty and expence.

Flax is a plant that has played an important part in the cultural and economic history of New Zealand for both the Māori people and the later European settlers.

According to the Flax Council of Canada, ALA is required for normal infant development and may be beneficial for reducing inflammation leading to atherosclerosis, and for preventing heart disease and arrhythmia.

NZ Flax ( Phormium tenax ) played a major role in Foxton ’ s development ; indeed Foxton, rather than being a " gold town " or " coal town " was indisputably a " flax town ", sending their product overseas to be used worldwide as a substitute for manila.

In diary entries, they recorded its name as " Flax River ", for the flax that makes up much of the river's riparian zone — and " Colorado Chiquito "— so, presumably they already knew about the river before they had come on the expedition.

But the novel differs in that it is modeled on Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, a genuine adventure story, and presents a geographically impossible array of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants ( including the Bamboos, Cassavas, Cinnamon Trees, Coconut Palm Trees, Fir Trees, Flax, Myrica cerifera, Rice, Rubber Plant Potatoes, Sago Palms, and an entirely fictitious kind of Sugarcane ) that probably could never have existed together on a single island for the children's edification, nourishment, clothing and convenience.

Flax was also harvested, but their primary source for clothing was wool from sheep.

Many postmodern writers and some feminists ( e. g. Jane Flax ) have made similar arguments, likewise seeing the Enlightenment conception of reason as totalitarian, and as not having been enlightened enough since, for Adorno and Horkheimer, though it banishes myth it falls back into a further myth, that of individualism and formal ( or mythic ) equality under instrumental reason.

** Operation Flax, the systematic targeting by Allied fighter pilots of Luftwaffe transport aircraft bound for North Africa, is put into effect.

He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Belfast in 2007 and received the Flax Trust Award for service to the community in 2010.

Following success with the woodhen, there have been recovery efforts for other endemic species on Lord Howe Island, including the Lord Howe Flax Snail ( Placostylus bivaricosus ) and the Lord Howe Currawong ( Strepera graculina crissalis ).

In 1992, PepsiCo paid nearly $ 100 million for 67 percent of the chain, with Flax and Rosenfield each receiving $ 17. 5 million.

* Aero linen for covering aircraft, such as the Hawker Hurricane, and military glider frames was manufactured by a number of Belfast flax spinning mills, such as The York Street Flax Spinning Co .; Brookfield Spinning Co .; Wm.

She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone ( 2007 ) and is also known for her roles in HBO's The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell ; HBO's In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse ; and NBC's The Office, playing human resources representative Holly Flax.

It includes the Common Flax ( L. usitatissimum ), the bast fibre of which is used to produce linen and the seeds to produce linseed oil.

Flax was used to make linen but before spinning and weaving the stems were " retted "; this meant soaking them in running water, a procedure which could have used the stream which also powered the mills.

** Flax ( produces linen )

Flax and linen were also produced just north of Kilkenny City.

Flax is not Irish linen — Irish linen is made from flax.

Flax grown in the Eastern Swabian Alb was used to manufacture linen.

The Greenock Sugar Porters ' Union, Dundee Flax and Jute Stowers ' Society, National Union of British Fishermen, and Belfast Breadservers ' Association had also joined before the end of the year.

In 1968, Perle cofounded the Alban Berg Society with Igor Stravinsky and Hans F. Redlich, who had the idea ( according to Perle in his letter to Glen Flax of 4 / 1 / 89 ).

Flax milling had begun in the 1870s and became a major industry in the area until the early 1940s.

PepsiCo executives had started cutting corners by replacing fresh ingredients with frozen vegetables and cheese ( a change Flax and Rosenfield reversed later ).

Flax and Rosenfield remained on the board but had no day-to-day control.

Flax was grown, and remains of domesticated apples, pears and plums have been found.

The Pale Flax has been considered as a possible wild forebear of the cultivated Common Flax, and a fibre can be made from its stem.

Flax fibres have been found in cloth fragments in Europe that date to the Neolithic prehistoric age.

Flax is also grown as an ornamental plant in gardens.

Flax was grown, carded, spun and woven into white fabric and thread which was used to make and decorate traditional Norwegian costume items called bunads ( national costumes ) as well as other items of clothing and household linens such as mats, curtains and bedspreads.

Flax was grown in considerable quantities in the area and supplemented imports from Riga and St Petersburg.

Flax and potatoes were grown in the west, north-west, Central Industrial Region and the Urals ; sugar-beet in the northern Ukraine and Central Agricultural region ; sunflower in south-eastern Russia and the southern Ukraine ; cotton in central Asia and Transcaucasia.

Flax was grown around Drouin during the two World Wars.

The harakeke ( Phormium tenax ), or New Zealand Flax plant, was brought to Norfolk Island either from New Zealand directly or from Raoul Island ( Sunday Island ) by these Polynesian settlers.

Flax fiber is extracted from the bast or skin of the stem of the flax plant.

Flax fibers vary in length from about 25 to 150 cm ( 18 to 55 in ) and average 12-16 micrometers in diameter.

On the other hand, feminist theorists such as Juliet Mitchell, Nancy Chodorow, Jessica Benjamin, Jane Gallop, Bracha Ettinger, Shoshana Felman, Griselda Pollock and Jane Flax have argued that psychoanalytic theory is vital to the feminist project and must, like other theoretical traditions, be adapted by women to free it from vestiges of sexism ( i. e. being censored ).

Flax seed oil that can be bought in many countries ( aka linseed oil ) is extracted from the seeds of the European flax, a plant that belongs to a completely different plant family.

Flax was imported from Ireland and the Baltic, timber came from across the Atlantic, and tallow from Russia.

The Pale Flax grows as a biennial or perennial plant in dry, sunny calcareous or neutral grasslands from sea level up to 1000 metres.

The track is popular with joggers and tourists, and has many plaques indicating various sights such as a remaining grey ironbark left from extensive logging in the late 19th century and several plants such as the invasive weed Lantana Camara and the native Settlers Flax.

In 1860 Flax Bourton railway station was opened by the Bristol and Exeter Railway just west of the short tunnel at the summit of the climb from Bristol.

In 1985, Flax and Rosenfield pooled $ 200, 000 in bank loans and savings along with $ 350, 000 invested from friends to lease space in Beverly Center on Beverly Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California.

* Holly Flax, a fictional character from the American TV series The Office