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On the frontier, processing flax involved five main tasks: retting, breaking, scutching, heckling and spinning.— News from www.pantagraph.com
After retting, the stems or stalks were broken using a hand-break.— News from www.pantagraph.com
The difference in color is due chiefly to the process of "retting."— Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
To separate this valuable commercial product from the woody matter the stalks are first subjected to a process termed retting, which is steeping them in water until they are quite soft.— Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
A slower process was termed dew-retting; an old author calls it "a vile and naughty way," but it was the way chiefly employed in America When the flax was cleaned, it was once more dried and tied in bundles.— Home Life in Colonial Days
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