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Flax Heckling CombDescription
For use in converting flax into linen; a process known as "dressing". Dressing consists of three steps: breaking, scutching and heckling. After breaking (breaking up the straw into short segments), some of the straw is scraped from the fibers in the scutching process, then the fiber is pulled through various sized heckling combs to yield material suitable to being spun into thread and yarn.
