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  • Activities for November: a man cuts up wood with an axe, wedges and a mallet, while women gather and process flax. Engraving by W. Kilian after J.M. Kager.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Genuine crushed linseed : containing all the natural oil / Parkinsons, chemists, Burnley.
  • Textiles: a beating machine for flax and hemp. Engraving.
  • Flax plant (Linum species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Textiles: four vignettes of stages in preparation of linen from flax. Wood engravings.
  • Textiles: equipment for processing flax. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Six British wild flowers, four types of flax (Linum species) and two wood sorrel (Oxalis). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.