Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent by Joshua MacFadyen

Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent

Joshua MacFadyen

368 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over...

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