Sentence examples for linen rag from inspiring English sources

But the Bank does feel it has done its homework on polymer, which it claims is harder to copy and last at least 2.5 times longer than current notes printed on a mix of cotton fibre and linen rag.

The £5 note is made from cotton fibre and linen rag - but finding one in a cash machine is like gold dust.

The current Bank of England banknotes are made from cotton fibre and linen rag, with the average fiver only lasting for a year.

I don't put linen rags between them.

The paper is hand-made from linen rags.

The Bank of England is currently tendering a £1bn project to print its money – currently made from cotton fibre and linen rags, from 2015 at its press in Debden, Essex.

In another case, he wrote: "She could not bear even zinc ointment, and I therefore directed that she should be covered from head to foot with linen rags dipped in fresh melted suet".

Food and offal were sold for manure, linen rags went to paper makers, broken crockery and oyster shells became hardcore for road makers, and old iron was sold to trunk manufacturers who used it to make corners for their products.

Almost all of these can be identified by their watermarks as papers from the mill of C&J Honig, imported in large quantities to England throughout the century.8 As demand for white paper increased, so did demand for quality, white linen rags [35].

Morris throwing off his coat to make a sheet of paper from purest rag linen at Bachelor's works at Little Chart in Kent.

Modern newspapers, made with groundwood pulp rather than linen or cotton rags, have shorter cellulose chains to start with, and are more acidic.