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Flax to Thread: Making Linen the 18th-Century Way

Long before factory looms, linen began as a humble flax plant in the fields. In colonial America, families transformed those tough stalks into strong, beautiful thread through a long, hands-on process—rippling, breaking, scutching, hackling, and spinning. Each step demanded skill, patience, and teamwork, from separating the woody core to drawing fine fibers through combs and finally twisting them into thread on the wooden spinning wheel. Join us as we step back in time to watch how American colonists turned raw flax into linen—the essential fabric of early America. 0:33 Growing Textile Flax for Fabric Making 0:50 Rippling Flax to Remove the Seeds 3:25 Retting the Flax Straw 4:34 This Flax Break Separates Shive from Fiber 5:46 Scraping on the Scutching Board with Knife to Remove Woody Shive 6:21 Hackling (or Heckling) at Different Coarseness to Untangle Fiber 7:00 What is the Tow? 8:20 How a Spinning Wheel Works 8:50 Spinning the "Line" into Linen Thread 10:54 A Finished Bundle Thread and Tow 11:11 Extracting Indigo Dye from Leaves #flaxseed #linen #fabric #fiberart #fiberartist #craftsmanship #spinningwheel