A knife with a painted wooden blade might sound like something strictly decorative. If it’s a flax knife, or scutching knife, ...

Working at the history center is a very energetic and exciting place where people bring their passions of the past into action. I am always impressed by our many demonstrators who bring their ...

Growing flax for fiber to spin into linen requires many steps. Once it is harvested and the seeds removed, it needs to be retted. Retting flax is the process of freeing the flax fibers from between ...

I first saw flax being processed for spinning about 25 years ago at the Museum of Frontier Culture near Staunton, Virginia. I really didn’t understand what I was seeing and thought it was an insane ...

Watch the following video clips that show the processes used to produce linen today and in the past. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit ...

A metal comb is one tool used to break flax down for processing into linen. Off a side road in Durham, a barn that belongs to the University of New Hampshire houses some unique devices from days gone ...

North American Linen Association report outlines expanding flax-for-linen production and manufacturing capacity in ...