Kinne, Helen · New York: The Macmillan company · leaf 191
Courtesy of United States Department of Agriculture. Fig. 104. — The stooks of flax. What is rippling and retting flax ? The next processis to remove all the seeds without injuring the longfibers. The machine for this looks like a comb madeof iron teeth set in a wooden frame. This frame isplaced on… … Courtesy of Speyer School, New York.Fig. 105.—This little girl is rippling flax the seeds. Then the flaxis bound in bundles forthe next process, which isretting. This is really themost important part of all,for it means rotting theoutside woody portion ofthe stem so as to get theflax fiber. This…
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