Fibrilia: a practical and economical substitute for cotton ... Together with a history of the growth and manufacture of wool, cotton, flax, etc., in Europe and America. With illustrations from microscopical examinations
An 1861 Boston trade treatise by Stephen M. Allen promoting fibrilia, a flax-based cotton substitute, addressed to manufacturers and investors and padded with a history of wool, cotton and flax in Europe and America. Plates mix fine pen drawings of flax plants and magnified fiber bundles with a landscape view of an early water-powered mill.
