The decision by a major buyer, the British Post Office, to use synthetic fibres for their mailbags was a major blow, all of which contributed in the closure of the island's flax mills in 1965.

A discovery reported in 2009 of spun, dyed, and knotted wild flax fibers in a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia shows that the plant was already in use by humans at the surprisingly early date of 30, 000 B. C .. New Zealand flax is not related to flax but was named after it, as both plants are used to produce fibers.

The use of flax for the production of linen goes back at least to ancient Egyptian times.

There is some support for the use of flax seed as a laxative due to its dietary fiber content though excessive consumption without liquid can result in intestinal blockage.

New methods of processing flax and the rising price of cotton have led to renewed interest in the use of flax as an industrial fiber.

The use of milkweed stalk fibre has also been reported, but it tends to be somewhat weaker than other fibres like hemp or flax.

This word history has given rise to a number of other terms in English, the most notable of which is the English word line, derived from the use of a linen ( flax ) thread to determine a straight line.

Dyed flax fibers found in a prehistoric cave in Georgia suggest the use of woven linen fabrics from wild flax may date back even earlier to 36, 000 BP.

During the 16th century a treadle wheel with flyer was in common use, and gained such names as the Saxony wheel and the flax wheel.

Frayed ends of flax leaves were fashioned into torches and lights for use at night.

The capsule also contained seeds of foods in common use at the time: ( wheat, corn, oats, tobacco, cotton, flax, rice, soy beans, alfalfa, sugar beets, carrots and barley, all sealed in glass tubes ).

By the 13th century there were tanning pits in use in Edgbaston Street ; and hemp and flax were being used for making rope, canvas and linen.

Heaven sent down snow, frost, rain, and dew to grow the five grains and flax and silk that so the people could use and enjoy them.

To use up flax yarn, women began to make the famous Valenciennes lace.

There was also the women who felt the then growing Eco movement's part, far cut ' also folk blouses ' from rough and natural materials such as flax, linen and cotton men also use these " Frisian blouses " on occasion.

The fortifications of such a purpose-built pā included palisades of hard puriri trunks sunk about 1. 5m in the ground and split timber, with bundles of protective flax padding in the later gunfighter pā, the two lines of palisade covering a firing trench with individual pits, while more defenders could use the second palisade to fire over the heads of the first below.

When not in use mere were carried in a flax belt ( tatua ) or sometimes suspended from a wrist cord.

Dripless seals, like a mechanical face seal, or lip seal use materials more technologically advanced than flax.

Apart from its use in the pulp and paper industry, xylanases are also used as food additives to poultry, in wheat flour for improving dough handling and quality of baked products, for the extraction of coffee, plant oils, and starch, in the improvement of nutritional properties of agricultural silage and grain feed, and in combination with pectinase and cellulase for clarification of fruit juices and degumming of plant fiber sources such as flax, hemp, jute, and ramie.

According to the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion the only materials acceptable for use as an altar cloth are linen made from flax or hemp.

further reported on similar structures formed on carbon fiber paper, also for use in supercapacitor applications.

Most systems use hybrid fiber coaxial ( HFC ) distribution ; this means the trunklines that carry the signal from the headend to local neighborhoods are optical fiber to provide greater bandwidth and also extra capacity for future expansion.

Sometimes it is referred to as " fly-by-light " due to its use of fiber optics.

Perfect mirrors are being developed for use in fiber optic cables.

Proprietary implementations have existed since the 1980s, some of which use fiber optic cables for transmission.

Most arms are made from some kind of alloy ( the cheapest being aluminium ), but some manufacturers use balsa wood, while others use carbon fiber or graphite.

Other methods include the use of a fiber coupler to confine and mix photons, the use of quantum dots to trap electrons until decay occurs, the use of the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, etc.

In the US and Europe, telephone companies use IPTV ( often on ADSL or optical fiber networks ) as a means to compete with traditional local cable television monopolies.

For example, both PNGinc and International Turbine And Power, LLC use carbon fiber discs in their Tesla turbine designs.

Several powerful double-clad fiber lasers and disk lasers use Yb < sup > 3 +</ sup > ions as dopant at concentration of several atomic percent.

Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that so lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

Additionally, rubber produced as a fiber sometimes called elastic, has significant value for use in the textile industry because of its excellent elongation and recovery properties.

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.

Because of this, phone companies endeavor to remove load coils on copper loops that can operate without them, and conditioning lines to avoid them through the use of fiber to the neighborhood or node ( FTTN ).

Other implementations use optical fiber for a length of up to 100 km and speeds around 150 Mbit / s

Doped fiber amplifiers ( DFAs ) are optical amplifiers that use a doped optical fiber as a gain medium to amplify an optical signal.

As a standard underlying medium it uses optical fiber, although it can use copper cable, in which case it may be referred to as CDDI ( Copper Distributed Data Interface ).

* Economists use the term " global labor arbitrage " to refer to the tendency of manufacturing jobs to flow towards whichever country has the lowest wages per unit output at present and has reached the minimum requisite level of political and economic development to support industrialization.

There has been considerable controversy in the United States and elsewhere about the lack of regulations in the manufacture of such jewelry — these range from human rights issues surrounding the treatment of labor, to the use of manufacturing processes in which small, but potentially harmful, amounts of toxic metals are added during production.

* Calcium carbide ( CaC < sub > 2 </ sub >) is used to make acetylene gas ( for use in acetylene torches for welding ) and in the manufacturing of plastics.

It also has a capacity to convert substantial portion of the intake into Refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ) materials for further combustion use in several energy consuming industries across Pakistan e. g., in cement manufacturing companies where it is used to heat up the Cement Kiln systems.

This reduced manufacturing costs and, combined with a wider use of colored glass, led to cheap glassware in the 1930s, which later became known as Depression glass.

Howard of the Connecticut National Guard had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns, and took a personally-owned Gatling gun to Saskatchewan in Canada in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against the Métis during Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion.

The engine manufacturing business was successful, building four-cylinder Family II engines for use in cars built overseas.

In response to the explosion of human population and material expectations in the 20th and 21st century, the company implements economies of scale, capturing material streams and creating manufacturing processes that hold costs and resource use down, such as the extensive use of MDF ( medium-density fiberboard ).

Many inductors used in radio applications ( usually less than 100 MHz ) use adjustable cores in order to tune such inductors to their desired value, since manufacturing processes have certain tolerances ( inaccuracy ).

IBM was offered use of the 80386, but had manufacturing rights for the earlier 80286.

Nonetheless, for many years even towards the end of the 18th century, chronometers were expensive rarities, as their adoption and use proceeded slowly due to the precision manufacturing necessary and hence high expense.

* Dead or stuck pixels may occur during manufacturing or through use.

Based on Richard Feynman's vision of miniature factories using nanomachines to build complex products ( including additional nanomachines ), this advanced form of nanotechnology ( or molecular manufacturing ) would make use of positionally-controlled mechanosynthesis guided by molecular machine systems.

In the last few years metric use has been increasing rapidly in the U. S., principally in the manufacturing and educational sectors.

Families often had small nail manufacturing setups in their homes ; during bad weather and at night, the entire family might work at making nails for their own use and for barter.

The magnitude of A < sub > OL </ sub > is not well controlled by the manufacturing process, and so it is impractical to use an operational amplifier as a stand-alone differential amplifier.

Designers may use this term to refer to the writing of the final file to disk or CD and its subsequent transmission to the foundry ; however, in current practice the foundry will perform checks and make modifications to the mask design specific to the manufacturing process before actual tapeout.

Water-poor countries use importation of goods as the primary method of importing water ( to leave enough for local human consumption ), since the manufacturing process uses around 10 to 100 times products ' masses in water.

They also made extensive use of new materials and manufacturing methods developed at the time.

US courts have taken action regarding the use of perchlorate in manufacturing pyrotechnic devices such as flares.

Because of its high performance, moderate ease of manufacturing, and moderate cost, APCP finds widespread use in space rockets, military rockets, hobby and amateur rockets, whereas cheaper and less efficient ANCP finds use in amateur rocketry and gas generators.

While rubber is still used in textile manufacturing, its low tenacity limits its use in lightweight garments because latex lacks resistance to oxidizing agents and is damaged by aging, sunlight, oil, and perspiration.