Flax
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Encyclopedia article on flax (Linum usitatissimum) from the New International Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673. It covers the botany of the plant, its uses for linen fibre and linseed oil, history of cultivation, and world production statistics. It describes soil and growing requirements, then the dressing steps of rippling, retting (dew, pool, running water, and chemical or heated-tank methods), breaking, scutching, and heckling, up to the point of spinning.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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