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IT is well known that pectic substances are broken down during the retting of flax. There is evidence that other polyuronides also occur in flax straw and are attacked in retting 1. Their constitution ...

During the last decade, a new type of structure has been found at several archaeological sites in Denmark. These structures can be interpreted as having been used for retting the stems of textile ...

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Previous evidence suggested that byssinosis in flax workers is caused by the inhalation of dust of biologically retted flax. In the present study no cases of byssinosis were found among workers in a ...

Several years ago, farmer Helen Keys and her husband Charlie Mallon embarked on what they thought would be a straightforward venture – growing flax to make linen. Charlie, a blacksmith and sculptor, ...

In the pioneer era, many of the first settlers to Central Illinois killed (in the case of animal furs and skins) and grew (in the case of cotton, hemp and flax) much of what they wore. | From Our Past ...

BACTERIAL soft rot of vegetables and the retting of flax are both due to decomposition of the pectin complex in the middle lamella, in the former case resulting in a loss of cohesion between the cells ...