Paper appliqué on landscape-format cream card, depicting two women in traditional clothes: striped waistcoats and skirts, and white shirts with wide sleeves. They are processing flax to make linen. Four black birds are flying above, and there is one brown tree on each side. Along the bottom edge is two rows of dentate shapes.
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