How did this even happen? Some random person: "Hey, look at the plant growing there. I'll bet that if i dry it, let it rot, beat the hell out of it, beat it again, drag it through the iron spikes of hell, I'll be able to make thread and weave it into cloth."
Great video! thank you for sharing the process. I haven't worked with flax much. I bougt some flax for spinning recently. Your videos just brought it full circle for me. Thanks!
Oh, this is so funny! I worked at the Scots-Irish Farm at the Frontier Culture Museum many years ago, back when the German Farm was still under construction. I learned how to process flax there. I was just on Ravelry, trying to explain the process to somebody, and I remembered a video (not this one, as it turns out). I turned to RUclips to find and, and what's the first one that comes up? The Frontier Culture Museum!
This is a great series! I am a spinner but haven't worked much with flax yet. The process is fascinating and it was awesome to see how it all works in real life as opposed to pictures in a book. I think we found a brake in our old barn at my parents' house! Guess I'll have to go check now. :)
Thank you. I was researching my family tree in the Netherlands and one was a Vlashandelaar (Flax dealer) in the late nineteenth century. I understand a lot more now. Obviously this is where we get the saying 'flaxen haired'.
Those "stick-like things" are actually the entire flax plants, though it looks like maybe the tops and leaves have been cut off for processing. You don't cut flax to harvest it, you pull it up out of the soil to keep the interior fibers as long as possible; one of the ends of the plant that you see at the beginning of the video are actually the roots.
Flax seed actually comes out quite easily. Little seed pods are formed out of the blossoms at the top. All you have to do is shake the stalks and maybe beat the top ends a little, and the pods and seeds will fall off.
How did this even happen?
Some random person: "Hey, look at the plant growing there. I'll bet that if i dry it, let it rot, beat the hell out of it, beat it again, drag it through the iron spikes of hell, I'll be able to make thread and weave it into cloth."
+Jordan Smithson Yeah, it would be amazing to know the evolution of the processing!
Jordan Smithson not to mention its thousands of years old! People thousands of years had such intelligence, quite amazing!
I'm pretty sure they started with making ropes out of different plants.
Great video! thank you for sharing the process. I haven't worked with flax much. I bougt some flax for spinning recently. Your videos just brought it full circle for me. Thanks!
Oh, this is so funny! I worked at the Scots-Irish Farm at the Frontier Culture Museum many years ago, back when the German Farm was still under construction. I learned how to process flax there. I was just on Ravelry, trying to explain the process to somebody, and I remembered a video (not this one, as it turns out). I turned to RUclips to find and, and what's the first one that comes up? The Frontier Culture Museum!
Looks like some good stress relief. Take it all out on the flax!
This is a great series! I am a spinner but haven't worked much with flax yet. The process is fascinating and it was awesome to see how it all works in real life as opposed to pictures in a book. I think we found a brake in our old barn at my parents' house! Guess I'll have to go check now. :)
Thanks for interesting and visually rich story. This is great science.
Thank you. I was researching my family tree in the Netherlands and one was a Vlashandelaar (Flax dealer) in the late nineteenth century. I understand a lot more now. Obviously this is where we get the saying 'flaxen haired'.
Wonderful! Thank you so much for providing this excellent video.
Got here after asking, "What fishing line was used before polymers?" and "fishing lines of the 1800's"
Thanks for the video. I really found it helpful.
This is amazing!
Thamks for uploading this video :)
thanks
Amazing thank you for sharing this! I have a question. I heard one woman say that the flax had to be harvested before the seeds formed? Is that true?
Very brave, people lost touch with the past and that linen looked fit for hair ! :D
Would you tell me about retting process of Falx which retting process is better for flax!
And this children, is how we made hair for our dolls back in the old days (sorry, I couldn't help myself).
Where do those stick-like things come from? Are they the stems that run down the middle of the flax leaves?
Those "stick-like things" are actually the entire flax plants, though it looks like maybe the tops and leaves have been cut off for processing. You don't cut flax to harvest it, you pull it up out of the soil to keep the interior fibers as long as possible; one of the ends of the plant that you see at the beginning of the video are actually the roots.
How did they get the flax seeds out and what did they do with them? Thanks.
Flax seed actually comes out quite easily. Little seed pods are formed out of the blossoms at the top. All you have to do is shake the stalks and maybe beat the top ends a little, and the pods and seeds will fall off.
So that's how process them flax.....
Can I watch without all the noise!!.
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