Flax
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Encyclopedia entry on flax from the Encyclopaedia Perthensis (1803), covering the plant and its cultivation and processing for linen in Scotland. It includes a table of expense, produce and profit for a Scots acre at three crop levels, and detailed instructions for pulling, rippling, stacking, watering in canals, and grassing (field-bleaching) the flax. It also describes a proposed method of scalding flax instead of water-retting, and the flax-dressing operations of breaking, scutching with hand tools and water mills, and heckling, including special dressing for cambric and fine lawn. Cross-references and short dictionary entries (flaxcomb, flaxdresser, flaxen) follow.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1803
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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