Linen Collection (#4)

France, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Alpes-Maritimes (06), Touet-de-l'Escarene: The bridge over the Paillon
LUX4767950 France, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Alpes-Maritimes (06), Touet-de-l'Escarene: The bridge over the Paillon, the bed of the dry river is used to dry the linen, animated view

Bruising flax stalks
2602659 Bruising flax stalks; (add.info.: Bruising flax stalks in preparation for retting (soaking), one of the processes in the production of linen

Linen manufacture
2602653 Linen manufacture; (add.info.: Linen manufacture, Carding engine and roving machine by P. Borrie of Dundee, Scotland. Engraving, Glasgow, 1888.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Irish linens, etc, for Christmas, 1850
3478776 Irish linens, etc, for Christmas, 1850; (add.info.: Advertisement for Irish linens, etc. for Christmas.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Education. Children life in the countryside. Dolls washing. Engraving "Munchener Bilderbogen", Germany
3434967 Education. Children life in the countryside. Dolls washing. Engraving "Munchener Bilderbogen", Germany, c.1880 (colour engraving); (add.info.: Education. Coll. Part. Education)

Economy. Figaro washing powder. Poster by Leo Gausson, France, c.1890 (poster)
3434478 Economy. Figaro washing powder. Poster by Leo Gausson, France, c.1890 (poster); (add.info.: Economie. Lessive Figaro. Coll. Part. Economy. Figaro washing powder)

Science. Textile manufacturing: a wash house in Paris. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie
3434765 Science. Textile manufacturing: a wash house in Paris. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France, c.1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Sciences. Industrie textile)

Engraving depicting women working in a linen factory
3523193 Engraving depicting women working in a linen factory; (add.info.: Engraving depicting women working in a linen factory); Universal History Archive/UIG

Flax, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The
FLO4618735 Flax, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Claves and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Servant at the baths, Paris, early 19th century, in lace bonnet and collar, pink dress and white apron
FLO4658457 Servant at the baths, Paris, early 19th century, in lace bonnet and collar, pink dress and white apron, carrying a dish of soap

Letter R: irons - Professions Alphabet, c.1900 (lithograph)
DUV4216443 Letter R: irons - Professions Alphabet, c.1900 (lithograph); 20x14 cm; (add.info.: Album containing a simplified reading method and an illustrated abecedary - Pont-a-Mousson Imaging)

Letter M: Everyone holds the sheet with a tip and laughs. What is that? a great M, 1861 (engraving)
DUV4214911 Letter M: Everyone holds the sheet with a tip and laughs. What is that? a great M, 1861 (engraving); (add.info.: "ABC Trim, Alphabet enchante" Texts of "Trim")

Advertising card for the San Francisco Paper Collar Company (litho)
8677553 Advertising card for the San Francisco Paper Collar Company (litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Client: Harper's Bazaar - Shoot at Cliveden
Client: Harper's Bazaar (May issue) - Shoot at Cliveden - Shoot date: March 12, 1943 (1/2) Date: 1943

First Process in Making Linen, Straightening the Fibres (b/w photo)
8652058 First Process in Making Linen, Straightening the Fibres (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: First Process in Making Linen)

King Louis XVI in grey-white half-mourning clothes
5856346 King Louis XVI in grey-white half-mourning clothes.; (add.info.: King Louis XVI in grey-white half-mourning clothes)

"Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, " by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885 (lithograph)
5856342 "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, " by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885 (lithograph); (add.info)

Fragment of the Queen's tapestry
5856336 Fragment of the Queen's tapestry.; (add.info.: Fragment of the Queen's tapestry. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

The Queen's bodice
5856328 The Queen's bodice.; (add.info.: The Queen's bodice. Chromolithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, " by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885)

Bearnaise hat, in honour of Henri IV
5856326 Bearnaise hat, in honour of Henri IV.; (add.info.: Bearnaise hat, in honour of Henri IV. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

Woman in canary-yellow taffeta cape with bar ear-rings
5856322 Woman in canary-yellow taffeta cape with bar ear-rings.; (add.info.: Woman in canary-yellow taffeta hooded cape trimmed with roses and ribbons, with bar ear-rings and ball mask)

A Near Eastern gentleman's linen nightcap embroidered in red and green, with silver gilt thread and sequins
1767224 A Near Eastern gentleman's linen nightcap embroidered in red and green, with silver gilt thread and sequins, trimmed with gold lace

France, Aquitaine, Gironde (33), Lege-Cap-Ferret (Lege Cap Ferret): August 1910, laundry in a villa in Cap-Ferret
LUX4784283 France, Aquitaine, Gironde (33), Lege-Cap-Ferret (Lege Cap Ferret): August 1910, laundry in a villa in Cap-Ferret; (add.info.: France, Aquitaine, Gironde (33)

Camp laundry in a bucket at a reenactment on the Yorktown battlefield, Virginia
NWI4844727 Camp laundry in a bucket at a reenactment on the Yorktown battlefield, Virginia.; (add.info.: Camp laundry in a bucket at a reenactment on the Yorktown battlefield)

American daily life, domestic stain: a woman stretched out her laundry, talking with a macon on the roof of her
NWI4882167 American daily life, domestic stain: a woman stretched out her laundry, talking with a macon on the roof of her building, in front of the panorama of the city, around 1870

Italy, Sicily, Palermo: in a village of Sicily, in a stone alley, 2 women head towards the church with jugs on their
LUX4779580 Italy, Sicily, Palermo: in a village of Sicily, in a stone alley, 2 women head towards the church with jugs on their head, 1890; (add.info.: Italy, Sicily, Palermo: in a village of Sicily)

Housing properties for Irish immigrants in Donovan Lane, near the Five Points, New York, around 1870
NWI4958607 Housing properties for Irish immigrants in Donovan Lane, near the Five Points, New York, around 1870. Coloured engraving

War 14-18:In the quarries of the Soissonnais, c.1915 (Postcard)
ICA4948512 War 14-18:In the quarries of the Soissonnais, c.1915 (Postcard); (add.info.: Postcard, N & B, ca. 1915:1914-15 Dans les carrieres du Soissonnais - War of 14 -18, Photography, Algeria)

France, Aquitaine, Pyrenees-Atlantiques (64), Biarritz: The baths of the old port, Pavilion Alexandra
LUX4769566 France, Aquitaine, Pyrenees-Atlantiques (64), Biarritz: The baths of the old port, Pavilion Alexandra. Drying linen, 1895; (add.info.: France, Aquitaine, Pyrenees-Atlantiques (64)

France, Champagne-Ardenne, Haute-Marne (52), Chalindrey: the church, square and hippomobile cars, take the train
LUX4768099 France, Champagne-Ardenne, Haute-Marne (52), Chalindrey: the church, square and hippomobile cars, take the train

From linen to work, 1865
LUX4818248 From linen to work, 1865; (add.info.: From linen to work, 1865); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

France, Brittany, Finistere (29), Roscoff: A wash in Roscoff, 1885
LUX4816804 France, Brittany, Finistere (29), Roscoff: A wash in Roscoff, 1885; (add.info.: France, Brittany, Finistere (29), Roscoff: A wash in Roscoff, 1885); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

Switzerland, Canton of Geneve, Geneve: Place Saint Gervais with fountain and women washing linen next to the fountain
LUX4795022 Switzerland, Canton of Geneve, Geneve: Place Saint Gervais with fountain and women washing linen next to the fountain, 1900; (add.info.: Switzerland, Canton of Geneve)

Engraving depicting the manufacture of linen paper
3523197 Engraving depicting the manufacture of linen paper; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the manufacture of linen paper); Universal History Archive/UIG

Letter L: Wash, 1868 (engraving)
DUV4217319 Letter L: Wash, 1868 (engraving); (add.info.: Engraving by Francois Pannemaker (1822-1900) in " Le premier livre des petits enfants" Full alphabet illustrative by Theophile

York Street Flax Mill
2602608 York Street Flax Mill; (add.info.: York Street Flax Mill, Belfast, Ireland, founded by Mulholland in 1830 when the population of Belfast was 50, 000. By 1866 the population was 150, 000)

Women drawing (roving) flax
2602751 Women drawing (roving) flax; (add.info.: Women drawing (roving) flax, Marshall's Flax Mill, Leeds, Yorkshire. Engraving, London, 1843.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Linen bleaching fields, Colrain, Ireland. Engraving from a children's book, London, 1823
2602650 Linen bleaching fields, Colrain, Ireland. Engraving from a children's book, London, 1823.; (add.info.: Linen bleaching fields, Colrain, Ireland)

Electric railway by Clovis Dupuy
2602750 Electric railway by Clovis Dupuy; (add.info.: Electric railway by Clovis Dupuy used to move long lengths of linen in bleaching field at Breuil en Auge, Calvados, France)

Woman spinning flax
2602657 Woman spinning flax; (add.info.: Woman from Ulster, Ireland, spinning flax using a treadle-operated spinning wheel)

Advertisement for Irish linens
2602651 Advertisement for Irish linens; (add.info.: Advertisement for Irish linens available by mail order from J. Lindsay & Co. Belfast, published London, 1898.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Interior of Marshall's Flax Mill
2602626 Interior of Marshall's Flax Mill; (add.info.: Interior of Marshall's Flax Mill, Leeds, Yorkshire, England)

Letter M: Everyone holds the sheet with a tip and laughs. What is that? a great M, 1861 (engraving)
DUV4214896 Letter M: Everyone holds the sheet with a tip and laughs. What is that? a great M, 1861 (engraving); (add.info.: "ABC Trim, Alphabet enchante" Texts of "Trim")

Letter J: Evening Games. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916
DUV4209282 Letter J: Evening Games. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916

Letter H: The Chambermen. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R
DUV4209266 Letter H: The Chambermen. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916

Letter Z: Zele. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916
DUV4209487 Letter Z: Zele. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916. Series of 25 postcards used by soldiers during the war 1914-1918

Letter U: A bad dream. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916
DUV4209468 Letter U: A bad dream. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Stop!, publisher, Paris, circa 1916

Scutching flax
3478865 Scutching flax; (add.info.: Scutching flax. Engraving after Daniel Nicolas Chodowiecki (1726-1801). Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax in preparation for

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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.