Flax-Dressing
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An encyclopedia article describing the stages of preparing flax fibre after harvest: pulling, rippling, retting (water, dew, and mixed methods), the Schenk and Watt artificial retting processes, breaking, and scutching by hand, machine, and revolving brushes. It ends by referring readers to the article on linen manufacture for later processes.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1881
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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