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Flax - Early works to 1800

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    Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session. The petition of Messrs. Gibson and Hogg merchants in Edinburgh, ...

    Gibson and Hogg (Merchants : Edinburgh, Scotland) | Date: 1761]
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    New methods of improving flax and flax-seed and bleaching cloath. By Thomas Turner.

    Turner, Thomas, active 1715. | Date: 1715
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    A great number of the nobility and gentry having come to a resolution to encourage the wearing of home made linnen [sic] cloth, the Honourable Society for Improving in the Knowledge of Agriculture have advised the publishing of the following rules for propagating and dressing of lint and hemp, and for bleaching and whitning [sic] of linnen [sic] cloth.

    Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. | Date: 1726]
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