Sentence examples for flax rope from inspiring English sources
Since the Post Office switched from flax rope to nylon string in the 1970s, the island's agricultural output has been reduced to small-scale coffee-growing.
Past explorations have yielded flax rope furniture and lighting by Christien Meindertsma, brightly colored striped woolen blankets and pillows by Scholten & Baijings, and pewter objects by Studio Job.
Until the mid-Sixties, the sole industry was growing flax for rope but now there is little commerce apart from tourism and the St Helena Coffee Company, which produces one of the most expensive coffees in the world (at about £40 a pound).
The German Hansa merchants traded mainly in fish, notably salted herring and stockfish (dried cod from Norway and Iceland), and also in softwood timber for shipbuilding, hemp for ropes, flax for sailcloth, and grain.
Flax is a herbaceous annual.
He lay in state, wearing flax blankets.
2008: "You've Changed" Lauren Flax & Sia.
