flaxen thread

And while I spin my flaxen thread, And sing my simple lay, The village seems asleep or dead Now Lubin is away.”

The fine laces of Venice, France, and Belgium are all of linen, i.e. flaxen thread.

From many a proud monastic pile, o'erthrown, Fear-struck, the hooded inmates rushed and fled; The web, that for a thousand years had grown O'er prostrate Europe, in that day of dread Crumbled and fell, as fire dissolves the flaxen thread.

Warts may safely be destroyed by tying them closely round the bottom with a silk thread, or a strong flaxen thread well waxed.

Then over the tripod he balanced a ring which he held suspended by a flaxen thread of extreme fineness, and which had also been consecrated with mystic ceremonies.