There are also photos of the flax growing and processing in one of the handouts in another 'page'.
Here is my flax/linen set in Flickr.
This is from my trip to the Linen Museums in Ireland.
These pictures didn't want to cooperate with the pretty arrangement I planned, so I made them all large and centred.
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| Harvest time |
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| Starting the ret |
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| One week ret |
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| Rippling (removing the seed bolls) |
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| Breaking |
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| Scutching (down my leg) |
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| Scutching (up in the air) |
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| Hackling (small, medium and large) |
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| 6 Skeins of home grown, handspun linen |
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| Linen corporal made from those 6 skeins |
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| Comparing different scouring processes |
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| Two towels from same weave, left one sunbleached for 2 weeks |
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| Stricks from my 2009 and 2010 harvest |
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| Stricks ready for a new weaving experiment |
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| 2012 spinning of commercial fibre |
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| Comparison colour of commercial fibre to my home grown |
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