Item Details: Working area 5 1/4" x 3 3/4" Tine Spacing: 3/8" Tine Height: 4 5/8" Base drilled for screwing down or can be clamped. Flax designs women's linen and specialty fabric clothing in pants, skirts, shorts, dresses, tanks, blouses, jackets, and more. After the seeds were separated from the flax, the woody flax stalks were soaked in water for a week or spread out on dew-covered fields for several weeks to break down the plant structure. It often has two blades pointing down and three pointing up, forcing the flax to bend into a W shape. Speak to one of our brake experts, today! How would we determine the value of the piece? We have made a flax brake, scutching board and knife, and hackles to do the processing. The official website of FLAX clothing. An antique hard maple flax break, circa 1883, used to process flax for making linen. This arrangement is based on a conscious "tangling" of the fibers so that there is a continuous feed until the last dregs have been spun. Flax Hackle. A flax break is a set of hinged intersecting wooden blades, which looks like a saw-horse. DESIGNED AND MADE IN BRITAIN An oak and elm floor standing flax breaking hand device., possible Welsh. Designed to split and straighten flax fibers in preparation for spinning in linen. You can, however, process flax without one. You can find videos on YouTube that show people using antique flax breaks. Q: Recently, my uncle was given a "flax break" from the late 1700s. Includes: flax hackle, cover, two clamps and tine straightener. Spinning flax into linen thread is done with a spinning wheel (or spindle). Item Details. If you would like to work with flax and you do not intend to grow your own, you can purchase unretted flax … Dorman First Stop HW5072 Disc Brake Caliper Bolt Front,Rear H5079 H5091 H15087 My husband built me a flax break. A: This is one of several special tools used to turn flax into thread. 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