Experiment in Flax Raising
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First-person account by Mabel H. Kerrison of growing flax on a small plot in northern New Hampshire and preparing the fiber by hand, written after postwar flax shortages. It covers sowing, pulling, rippling, dew-retting (with comparison to retting in Belgium, Russia and Ireland), breaking, scutching or swingling, and hackling, and notes the use of tow. Illustrated with a flax field, a botanical drawing and photographs of the ripple, hand-brake, swingling block and knife, and hackle. It ends with a plea for community flax growing, spinning and weaving, and mentions a towel she wove from her own flax.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1923
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 10
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