Linen Collection (#3)

Workers shredding flax using a hackle or heckle, 19th century, 1864
7125178 Workers shredding flax using a hackle or heckle, 19th century, 1864; (add.info.: Workers shredding flax, 19th century)

Woodblock engraving depicting a victim of the Spanish Inquisition being led to the stake wearing a San Benito
5308577 Woodblock engraving depicting a victim of the Spanish Inquisition being led to the stake wearing a San Benito, a linen overall painted with figures of demons and creatures from Hell

Courtyard of a house inhabited by members of the Jewish community in Kef, Tunisia, 19th century engraving, circa 1875
JAB5037161 Courtyard of a house inhabited by members of the Jewish community in Kef, Tunisia, 19th century engraving, circa 1875

Landscape with peasant and bridge has the countryside. Painting by Giuseppe Zais (1709-1789)
VEN5032880 Landscape with peasant and bridge has the countryside. Painting by Giuseppe Zais (1709-1789). Accademia dei Concordi

Flax or linseed, Linum usitatissimum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann
FLO4995330 Flax or linseed, Linum usitatissimum. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Engraving depicting the manufacture of linen paper
3523199 Engraving depicting the manufacture of linen paper; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the manufacture of linen paper); Universal History Archive/UIG

Male and female pirates of the West Indies, armed with musket and cutlass.early 1800s
FLO4621671 Male and female pirates of the West Indies, armed with musket and cutlass.early 1800s. The buccaneer at left wears a linen shirt dyed with animal blood

Hat in white taffeta trimmed with pink ribbon
5856343 Hat in white taffeta trimmed with pink ribbon.; (add.info.: Hat in white taffeta trimmed with pink ribbon. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette)

Hat inspired by Salieri's opera "Tarare": pink and black striped taffeta
5856337 Hat inspired by Salieri's opera "Tarare": pink and black striped taffeta, decorated with a garland of roses

A woman wearing a dark slate-blue redingote with three collars
5856319 A woman wearing a dark slate-blue redingote with three collars.; (add.info.: A woman wearing a dark slate-blue redingote with three collars)

Portrait of the Queen at Trianon by Sicardi
5856312 Portrait of the Queen at Trianon by Sicardi.; (add.info.: Portrait of the Queen at Trianon by Sicardi. Photoglyptie from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

Woman in pierrot, pouf bonnet, apple green petticoat, with Jeannette ribbons on her shoes
5856327 Woman in pierrot, pouf bonnet, apple green petticoat, with Jeannette ribbons on her shoes.; (add.info.: Woman in pierrot, pouf bonnet, apple green petticoat)

"Prominent citizen" bonnets
5856325 "Prominent citizen" bonnets.; (add.info.: "Prominent citizen" bonnets. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

Women's belt badges
5856320 Women's belt badges.; (add.info.: Women's belt badges with classical scenes. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

France: Group of linen with iron and professional instruments, 1895
LUX4756119 France: Group of linen with iron and professional instruments, 1895; (add.info.: France: Group of linen with iron and professional instruments, 1895); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

Italian immigration: Neighbourhood in the Italian district of Mulberry Street in New York, United States, years 1870
NWI4957927 Italian immigration: Neighbourhood in the Italian district of Mulberry Street in New York, United States, years 1870

France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Vernou: tuffeau porch of a troglodyte house with a woman
LUX4758658 France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Vernou: tuffeau porch of a troglodyte house with a woman and her children extending the linen, 1920; (add.info.: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37)

GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jose (1886-1945). The Laundresses. 1931. Contemporary Art. Oil on canvas. Private Collection
CUL4864388 GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jose (1886-1945). The Laundresses. 1931. Contemporary Art. Oil on canvas. Private Collection by Gutierrez Solana, Jose (1886-1945); (add.info.: GUTIERREZ SOLANA)

Illustration of Carlegle (1877-1937) for the Cover of Le Rire, 25/06/10 - In the country - Countryside, Childhood
ICA4864253 Illustration of Carlegle (1877-1937) for the Cover of Le Rire, 25/06/10 - In the country - Countryside, Childhood, Architecture Urban Planning, Dolls - Peasants

France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Cinq-Mars-la-Pile (5 March the pile): Roman ruins of an aqueduct
LUX4777421 France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Cinq-Mars-la-Pile (5 March the pile): Roman ruins of an aqueduct, 2 peasants wash their clothes at the foot of the Roman aqueduct which was partly used

Blanchisseuse - Laundress of Paris, early 19th century, in bonnet, shawl, red dress and black apron
FLO4658578 Blanchisseuse - Laundress of Paris, early 19th century, in bonnet, shawl, red dress and black apron, holding a basket of laundry - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an

Repasseuse - Female presser, Paris, early 19th century, ironing clothes on a table
FLO4658424 Repasseuse - Female presser, Paris, early 19th century, ironing clothes on a table, wearing a blue dress with white scarf, and her hair in ringlets and a bignon

Letter X: X'tinction of lights. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R
DUV4209476 Letter X: X'tinction of lights. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916

Letter R: Awakens. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916
DUV4209450 Letter R: Awakens. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916

A Parisian woman dressing. A merchant displays an elegantly frilled dress
FLO4677569 A Parisian woman dressing. A merchant displays an elegantly frilled dress, while shopgirls fix her bonnet and bring fabric

Woman in taffeta pierrot caraco jacket, white linen petticoat, fichu in English gauze
FLO4671905 Woman in taffeta pierrot caraco jacket, white linen petticoat, fichu in English gauze, and headdress of artificial roses and ribbons

Letter L: Ah! I cut myself! But what can I see, o heaven! Man, arm and razor, we draw three L, 1861 (engraving)
DUV4214909 Letter L: Ah! I cut myself! But what can I see, o heaven! Man, arm and razor, we draw three L, 1861 (engraving); (add.info.: "ABC Trim)

Letter N: Swimming in the room. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R
DUV4209436 Letter N: Swimming in the room. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916

Women of Snaith
2602656 Women of Snaith; (add.info.: Women of Snaith, Yorkshire, England, hand carding and spinning flax. Woodcut, London, 1823); Universal History Archive/UIG

Small boy using a machine to cut flax stalks
2602658 Small boy using a machine to cut flax stalks; (add.info.: Small boy using a machine to cut flax stalks into uniform lengths for heckling, one of the processes in the production of linen)

Receipt from O H Hughes & Co, London (engraving)
8677426 Receipt from O H Hughes & Co, London (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Receipt from O H Hughes & Co's hosiery, gloves, Indian bandana)

Pulling and binding flax, Antrim (b/w photo)
8652391 Pulling and binding flax, Antrim (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Pulling and binding flax, Antrim)

Monopole linen, c.1880-1890 (illustration)
8698389 Monopole linen, c.1880-1890 (illustration) by Roedel, Auguste (1859-1900); (add.info.: Society. Lifestyle. Laundrywoman ironing)

Dress of Athenian men and women in ancient Greece, c.1934 (print)
3062024 Dress of Athenian men and women in ancient Greece, c.1934 (print) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: From The Piers Plowman Histories)

Blue flowered flax, Linum usitassimum
5856598 Blue flowered flax, Linum usitassimum; (add.info.: Blue flowered flax, Linum usitassimum. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by J. Schaly from G. T)

The Queen's ivory fan
5856317 The Queen's ivory fan.; (add.info.: The Queen's ivory fan. Photoglyptie from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, " by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885)

The Queen in her bodice - sketch by Miss Josephine Houssay
5856314 The Queen in her bodice - sketch by Miss Josephine Houssay.; (add.info.: The Queen in her bodice - sketch by Miss Josephine Houssay)

Woman in a silk redingote and straw hat with a cane in her hand
5856332 Woman in a silk redingote and straw hat with a cane in her hand.; (add.info.: Woman in a silk redingote and straw hat with a cane in her hand)

Woman in a milkmaid bonnet with blue-grey English sheath dress trimmed with white Jeannette ribbon
5856329 Woman in a milkmaid bonnet with blue-grey English sheath dress trimmed with white Jeannette ribbon.; (add.info.: Woman in a milkmaid bonnet with blue-grey English sheath dress trimmed with)

Pouf hat and shell hat in gauze
5856324 Pouf hat and shell hat in gauze.; (add.info.: Pouf hat and shell hat in gauze. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

France, Ile-de-France, Val-de-Marne (94), Maisons-Alfort: The boat wash and boats-mouches, 1900
LUX4815982 France, Ile-de-France, Val-de-Marne (94), Maisons-Alfort: The boat wash and boats-mouches, 1900; (add.info.: France, Ile-de-France, Val-de-Marne (94)

France, Rhone-Alpes, Rhone (69), Lyon: countertype of an ancient photo 1860-70
LUX4792717 France, Rhone-Alpes, Rhone (69), Lyon: countertype of an ancient photo 1860-70, gateway to the Saone with many floating mills and laundry dryers, 1900; (add.info.: France, Rhone-Alpes)

Gothic architecture. History of Saint James the Major: scene of the drapers
JEB4845052 Gothic architecture. History of Saint James the Major: scene of the drapers. Stained glass of the northern ambulatory, absidial. Cathedrale de Chartres.; (add.info.: Gothic architecture)

France: Gender scene, 2 young girls come back and have breakfast, 1865
LUX4816715 France: Gender scene, 2 young girls come back and have breakfast, 1865; (add.info.: France: Gender scene, 2 young girls come back and have breakfast, 1865); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

Women extending their laundry on rooftop clotheslines, early 1900s - Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an
NWI4884032 Women extending their laundry on rooftop clotheslines, early 1900s - Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration; (add.info)

Laundry classes of the Indian School of Chemawa, in Salem (Oregon, USA), circa 1880 - Duotone reproduction of a 19th
NWI4899237 Laundry classes of the Indian School of Chemawa, in Salem (Oregon, USA), circa 1880 - Duotone reproduction of a 19th century illustration - Laundry class at Chemawa Indian School in Salem

Common flax, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James
FLO4696791 Common flax, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1804.; (add.info.: Common flax)

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"Linen: A Timeless Fabric Weaving Stories of Elegance and Nostalgia" Step back in time to the 1930s, where linen played a starring role in fashionable playsuits that exuded both comfort and style. Picture yourself lounging in a luxurious bath, reminiscent of Alfred Stevens' captivating painting capturing the essence of a woman immersed in relaxation. Transported to Bullocks Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA, you can envision the opulence of Lady Lavery's sitting room adorned with delicate linen drapes cascading gracefully. Travel further into history as you explore Petronella Dunois' Dolls House from 1676, marveling at the intricate handcrafted linen furnishings that bring miniature worlds to life. Immerse your senses with Mother Shipton Soap's fragrant lather while admiring men's celluloid detachable collars meticulously crafted from this versatile fabric. Victor Stiebel's day dress showcases how linen effortlessly transitions from casual wear to refined elegance. Wander down Dunfermline's High Street through a black and white photo capturing its timeless charm. Experience the artistry captured by Ernest Hebert as he paints young lavandieres diligently washing linens under the warm sun of the 19th century. Hudsons Soap advertises their product on crisp linen sheets, promising cleanliness and freshness for all who indulge. Finally, delve into Irish Cottage Industries' exquisite hand embroidery on linen; witness skilled artisans weaving tales through every stitch. Linen has stood as an emblem of sophistication throughout centuries—a fabric that whispers stories passed down through generations. Intriguingly intertwined with historical moments and artistic masterpieces alike, linen remains an enduring symbol of grace and refinement—its threads woven delicately into our collective memory.