flax-spindle

Updated: May 1, 2025

A Country lowing with kine; the hum of the flax-spindle heard in its cottages, in those old days, "much of the linen called Hollands is made in Julich, and only bleached, stamped and sold, by the Dutch," says Busching. A Country, in our days, which is shrouded at short intervals with the due canopy of coal-smoke, and loud with sounds of the anvil and the loom.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03