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LINEN - Making Linen Fabric from Flax Seed - Demonstration Of How Linen …

Please enjoy this nice Irish farmer showing how to process linen from planting to spinning, set to soothing music

Flaxen-haired makes a lot more sense now

he makes it look easier than it is if you can believe that

Comments

[minoanmiss]

oooh, I need to watch this! Thank you!

flax processing

[light_of_summer]

Wow, that looks like a lot of work!

Kind of makes it obvious why humans invented mill machinery, though I imagine grain mills greatly predated fiber mills (and lumber mills and pulp mills and steel mills).

Now I'm wondering whether people who had to hand-grind grains did it in little batches or bigger ones... *goes to look it up* ...So, today I learned that whole grains keep better than ground grains, so at least some cultures had the women grinding grains every day. [Link] In the region where I live, that probably also applied to acorns.

Thanks for the thought-provoking link!

Re: flax processing

[dragonlady7]

It's a ton of work and I know that on the one hand you'd do it with like your whole farm crew so it wouldn't be all you doing it, but on the other hand yeah my small hometown had a large-scale flaxen mill on the waterfall by 1790. But I do'nt know what state they started with the flax in-- did they get it as line flax and tow from th e producers, or did the mill do the retting, the breaking, the scutching, the hackling? I just don't know.

Re: flax processing research and unrelated(?) dream

[light_of_summer]

Do I remember correctly that your mom has done a lot of local research? If you happen to be interested in pursuing those questions about local milling details, I wonder if she might be a good resource.

On a completely unrelated topic (as far as I know), you made a guest appearance in my dreams, last night: We were each in downtown Berkeley, in late afternoon or early evening of a sunny day, when we unexpectedly found and recognized one anither. You had climbed a tree in a park and were sitting in it, reading, but you came down when I spoke to you, and we went and ate Thai food at a nearby restaurant. Afterwards, you seem troubled, and when I asked you why, you told me that the restaurant's portion sizes had been wastefully large.

We had that exchange as we took a longer walk, to a different park, near the bay. Along the way, we briefly lost each other, we came a little closer to traffic than either of us wanted (due to construction), and we found a public restroom facility that seemed to have been made out of milk glass, in a rather igloo-influenced, 1960s-ish style.

By the time we reached the park where we could enjoy a bay view, it was getting close to sunset. While we were discussing what we had time to do with the remaining daylight, we saw a semi-melanistic fox run past. It jingled, as if it were wearing a bell, and we agreed that it must be someone's pet.

That's as much as I can remember of the part of the dream that had you in it—I thought you might be amused to know about it.

The semi-melanistic fox in the dream was clearly derived from a tumblr post that I read yesterday. The parks in the dream roughly corresponded to real-life parks in Berkeley, but had significant differences in detail. And I haven't actually eaten Thai food in a really long time.

Re: flax processing research and unrelated(?) dream

[dragonlady7]

Oh that's so funny.
Yeah, I've asked mom a bit about her research, but she's... not great at distilling things into a format I can super follow along with. I do plan to ask her more, though.

That's so funny. I've been to California one time, but it was San Diego and it was about 2003. It was really hot there, and there was mroe sun than I knew what to do with. How funny.

I haven't had Thai in forever either!!! That's such a good idea.