flaxen thread
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Such bundles of soft delicate knitted stockings and socks; and, above all, in Lady Ludlow’s eyes, such hanks of the finest spun flaxen thread!
From My Lady Ludlow by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
But autumn downward drove the kine, And clothed the wheel with flaxen thread, And sprinkled snow upon the pine, And bowed the silent spinster's head.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
The warp of these carpets was, in olden times, a strong, heavy flaxen thread.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
This "Hedebo" needlework is the finest stitchery you can well imagine, wrought on home-spun linen with flaxen thread.
From Denmark by Thomson, M. Pearson
And while I spin my flaxen thread, And sing my simple lay, The village seems asleep or dead, Now Lubin is away.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
