= product of a plant of about a meter tall; its leaves are narrow and the flowers are bright blue with five petals; the seed capsule contains oil; after the plants have ripened they are uprooted and the stalks are left to dry for a while; they are then soaked, dried, and beaten to separate the fibers, which are then combed and woven into linen cloth
flax
Professions
= people whose profession it is to clean flax by combing it
workers in combed flax
Cloth
= woven material made from the stems of the flax plant; absorbs perspiration better than many other types of cloth; used for production of cloth and clothes, but can also be used as a measuring line; worn by priests; associated with quality, strength, and coolness
linen
Furnishings
= a strip of cotton that, when placed in a lamp, draws up the oil on one side and is set alight on the other