An illustrated 1912 school-level history and primer on linen, Book One of the series Warp and Woof: The Story of the Textile Arts. It covers the history of linen from Egypt, Palestine, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, England and the United States, then the flax plant, retting, scutching, hand spinning, the spinning wheel, looms and weaving. Later chapters describe mill manufacture (hackling, drawing, roving, spinning, warping, sizing, power and Jacquard weaving, bleaching) with photographs from a Belfast mill, and flax culture and linseed oil in the United States. It includes fairy tales and a poem about flax and spinning.