"The Northern Paper Mills has, from time to time ... At 10 cents a roll, Northern Tissue was as "soft as fine linen," and each sheet was "as free from bacteria as sterile hospital cotton ...

where medieval Europeans made paper by cutting up linen and cotton rags, soaking them, and treating them. The first rag-paper mill came to the North American European colonies in 1690. Over time ...

Avoid material that feels paper thin and crunchy ... Thanks to the renowned Irish linen mill Baird McNutt, this shirt feels incredibly luxurious, compared to the rugged, coarse linens we ...

To make paper, some sort of plant fiber -- wood, cotton, linen, hemp, among others -- is ... was in the rag business and owned paper mills. Pennsylvania, Franklin’s home state, was the heart ...

The legendary patriot stabled his horses at the Massachusetts paper mill run by Thomas Crane ... been the sole supplier of the special blend of linen-and-cotton paper that gives U.S. money ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. What was an emerald-green linen bedsheet, after being beaten for a few hours in a bucket of water, has turned to a ...

established this small paper mill making paper from linen and cotton rags. The Inghams placed the following ad in Scioto Gazette in 1810, “Wanted – Clean Linen and Cotton Rags” offering ...

In addition to the hotel, he founded the Illinois Linen Co., which made linen from ... in those days — $10,000 — but it benefitted his mill. The man died in 1892, but the town still bears ...

DUDLEY — A real estate company is looking to start renovation and development on the property of the Stevens Linen Mill historic building this summer as part of a $53 million plan to turn the ...

So why did I find myself handing my credit card information over to an Alex Mill sales associate a few months ago, Mercer linen suit separates in hand? In the moment, I justified the purchase as ...