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Description: | View of linen industry workers in 18th century, Ireland. This is the forth plate in a series of twelve views of the manufacturing process produced by W. Hincks. The young female worker on the left of this print is beating the dried flax with a beetle or large wooden mallet, to loosen the brittle outer parts of the stem. Then the flax was held in place and struck with a long wooden blade to separate the fibres from the unwanted woody parts of the stems; two female workers are carrying out this procedure which known as scrunching. This process produced fine fibres known as ‘stricks’, which then had to combed by a hackler; this is the male worker to the left of the print. The flax was now fine and dense, ready for spinning into yarn. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Hincks, W. | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Hincks, W. | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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