North Dakota State University textile experts used a microscope to look at the 250-year-old threads, and, sure enough, the linen was made from flax at a farm in 1769.
The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone in the development of rotational tools.
Other raw materials, such as linen, tend to come from Europe. And leather flips the script entirely ... October — amid a torrential downpour — commercial director Maurizio Colzani tells me about the ...