• a collective flax-work day at the linen stewards' flax shed in nijmegen
  • the rippling bench and manual flax brake (behind)
  • seed pods collected from rippling the harvested flax
  • the hand-driven flax brake uses fluted rollers to scutch the flax, breaking up the woody bast
  • woody shives scattered on the shed floor after scutching with the flax brake
  • improvised stricks of scutched flax await hackling
  • hackling and hackled flax
  • hackled flax is twisted into a flax strick awaiting spinning
  • the yield of the 2022 flax harvest was shared equitably amongst the stewards

hand processing the flax yield at the shared stewardship flax shed

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  • a collective flax-work day at the linen stewards' flax shed in nijmegen

    a collective flax-work day at the linen stewards' flax shed in nijmegen

  • the rippling bench and manual flax brake (behind)

    the rippling bench and manual flax brake (behind)

  • seed pods collected from rippling the harvested flax

    seed pods collected from rippling the harvested flax

  • the hand-driven flax brake uses fluted rollers to scutch the flax, breaking up the woody bast

    the hand-driven flax brake uses fluted rollers to scutch the flax, breaking up the woody bast

  • woody shives scattered on the shed floor after scutching with the flax brake

    woody shives scattered on the shed floor after scutching with the flax brake

  • improvised stricks of scutched flax await hackling

    improvised stricks of scutched flax await hackling

  • hackling and hackled flax

    hackling and hackled flax

  • hackled flax is twisted into a flax strick awaiting spinning

    hackled flax is twisted into a flax strick awaiting spinning

  • the yield of the 2022 flax harvest was shared equitably amongst the stewards

    the yield of the 2022 flax harvest was shared equitably amongst the stewards