Cogwheels on a flax breaker

The weird mystery of the Frankenstein flax scutcher

What is scutching? Scutching is the process of taking off all the outer parts of the flax plant to leave the long fibres. We do this once the harvested flax has been retted, dried and broken using our old, refurbished flax scutcher.  You can read more about the full process here. Scutching would have been …

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