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en-wikipedia-org-8607		Flax - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6324	879	76	But with laws designed to publicize the hygiene of linen textiles and the health of linseed oil, Charlemagne revived the crop in the eighth century CE.[15] Eventually, Flanders became the major center of the European linen industry in the Middle Ages.[15] In North America, colonists introduced flax, and it flourished there,[16] but by the early 20th century, cheap cotton and rising farm wages had caused production of flax to become concentrated in northern Russia, which came to provide 90% of the world's output. Flax is grown for its seeds, which can be ground into a meal or turned into linseed oil, a product used as a nutritional supplement and as an ingredient in many wood-finishing products. Flax is harvested for fiber production after about 100 days, or a month after the plants flower and two weeks after the seed capsules form. Dressing the flax is the process of removing the straw from the fibers.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8607.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8607.txt