Scoil: Lisselton (B.) (uimhir rolla 10535)

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1. The Weaving of Flax

   

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   First the ground is dug and prepared. Then the flax seed is sown. When it is ripe it is pulled and made into sheaves. Then it is made into small stacks and left there for a week. Then it is put in a pond of water for a time. Then it is taken out and spread to dry. It is then tied into sheaves and made into large stacks to ripen. Then it is taken into a house and dried over a fire upon sticks called hurdles. It is taken down then and pounded with flat sticks called Bittles. Then it is made into thoheens[?] and cloved with a cloving tongs. The tow is taken from it and put in a seperate place, and the flax is rolled into bundles. Then the flax is combed out with a hackle and made into finer bundles, when the last of the tow is taken from it. Then it is spun in the Linen wheel, and rolled on reels. And then it is made into Hanks[?] and put on a line until it is all done. Then it is boiled and washed and then it is put into wattles to bleach, when it is white

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