Textiles; a handbook for the student and the consumer (1926)
Woolman, Mary Schenck, 1860- · New York, MacMillan · leaf 339
LINEN AND MINOR I-IBERS 315 The flax straw is placed in stagnant pools for about the same length of time as for water retting. Ireland practices this method. The flax is good in quality but darker in color, a sort of silver-gray. (3) Dew Retting. The flax straw is spread over the fields to ferment.… … FlG. 114.— RhniNG AT CuLKTKAl quently to obtain the best results, but this is not always done. Three or four weeks are needed to com])lete the ])roccss, but the sheaves of flax are often left all winter exposed to rain, sun, and dew. Russia uses this way of obtaining the fiber. The color of the…
Textile fabrics
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