[Herbalist] Flax tools

[dwilson]

This is a mailing I sent to my kingdom A&S list. I thought this list might
like it also.
Sheepstealer

Greetings from Sheepstealer
  I have grown flax this year
 http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jamy/flax/flax1.jpg
   and I have harvested my first flax crop
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jamy/flax/bundle.jpg
 and now I am retting some flax on the lawn
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jamy/flax/retting.jpg
And found the florilegium a gold mine
http://www.florilegium.org/files/TEXTILES/linen-msg.html
 As for tools, I combed out the seed heads
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jamy/flax/seed2.jpg
 with this
 http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jamy/flax/comb.jpg
and would like some tool ideas my self.  A period distaff and spindle for
10th cent Viking would be nice too.
Sheepstealer

> -----Original Message-----

> Subject: [MCH] flax tools
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> Hi,
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> I have a question posed to me by a newbie, and I said I'd try to identify
> some SCAdian resources for her. Anybody know where to get plans for
> making hackles, scutches, and flax breaks?