Credit: Bjoertvedt
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Credit: D. Gordon E. Robertson
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Credit: Sanjay Acharya
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Comments: Brown Flax Seeds.
Credit: Jamain
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Comments: Flax fibers, picture taken in a farm in Dottignies, Belgium.
Credit: Joep Vogels, Textielmuseum Tilburg
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Comments: Flax / linen: flax stem, fiber, yarn and woven and knitted linen textiles. Tray and samples of the textile cabinet in the Textielmuseum in Tilburg. Cabinet interior made by Simone de Waart, Material Sense.
Flax. Linum usitatissimum. פשתה pešeth - Strongs: H6593, - Strongs: H6594.
From Easton: Flax - (Heb. pishtah, i.e., "peeled", in allusion to the fact that the stalks of flax when dried were first split or peeled before being steeped in water for the purpose of destroying the pulp). This plant was cultivated from earliest times. The flax of Egypt was destroyed by the plague of hail when it "was bolled", i.e., was forming pods for seed (Exodus 9:31). It was extensively cultivated both in Egypt and Palestine. Reference is made in Joshua 2:6 to the custom of drying flax-stalks by exposing them to the sun on the flat roofs of houses. It was much used in forming articles of clothing such as girdles, also cords and bands (Leviticus 13:48, Leviticus 13:52, Leviticus 13:59; Deuteronomy 22:11). (See LINEN)
