Flax to linen
Saturday 4 July 2026
Sunday 5 July 2026
Learn how our ancestors processed the flax plant into linen fabric. For millennia this vital plant clothed us and became our second skin. Come and learn the traditional skill of ‘breaking’ and ‘scutching’ this course fibre into simple twine.
The day will cover:
- Social history of flax growing
- Growing, retting and processing a crop flax
- Breaking, scutching, hackling fibre to produce ‘linen line’ or ‘silver’ using simple hand tools
- Preparing fibres for spinning with traditional spindles and worls
- To learn how to ‘dress’ a ‘distaff’
- Using ‘Tow’ to make a simple twine and learn how to make rope.
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Saturday 4 July 2026
Sunday 5 July 2026
Learn how our ancestors processed the flax plant into linen fabric. For millennia this vital plant clothed us and became our second skin. Come and learn the traditional skill of ‘breaking’ and ‘scutching’ this course fibre into simple twine.
The day will cover:
- Social history of flax growing
- Growing, retting and processing a crop flax
- Breaking, scutching, hackling fibre to produce ‘linen line’ or ‘silver’ using simple hand tools
- Preparing fibres for spinning with traditional spindles and worls
- To learn how to ‘dress’ a ‘distaff’
- Using ‘Tow’ to make a simple twine and learn how to make rope.
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