You can trace the start of a small, striped piece of fabric to a humid July morning. That day, students harvested flax. Then they processed the fiber, spun it into yarn, dipped in dye and wove it into ...
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Before the linen, before the loom – comes the blade. In part 3 of the flax series, we carve a traditional scutching knife by hand - a tool used to break and scrape flax fibres after retting. Made from ...
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