Wooden flax hetchel (also spelled hatchel) with metal spikes. Used to clean flax. Rough hewn board with holes on either end. Metal is wrapped around the board and spikes are nailed through both the board and the metal. Spikes are approx. 3" long.
Accessions card reads: "HETCHEL - hackling was done with the hetchel. Used to comb out straight and clean the broken fibers, by drawing through a series of hetchels with increasingly fine teeth. Used with flax."
