Constructive work; . breaking has been thoroughly done, what re-mains is hackled. The hackling consists in passing the flaxthrough a series of combs, as represented in the left of The hackle is not a difficult piece of apparatus tomake. It consists of wire nails ground into long, sharf 208 points. These are driven through a circular or rectangularpiece of wood, banded with an iron strip, and glued andscrewed to a support, as shown to the left of Fig. process of hackling removes many of the pieces of stalknot removed by the brake, and it also splits the fibers. Evenafter this p
Constructive work; . breaking has been thoroughly done, what re-mains is hackled. The hackling consists in passing the flaxthrough a series of combs, as represented in the left of The hackle is not a difficult piece of apparatus tomake. It consists of wire nails ground into long, sharf 208 points. These are driven through a circular or rectangularpiece of wood, banded with an iron strip, and glued andscrewed to a support, as shown to the left of Fig. process of hackling removes many of the pieces of stalknot removed by the brake, and it also splits the fibers. Evenafter this process is completed, there are still bits of the stalkleft. To remove the last of it, the flax is brushed, as isshown in Fig. XV. The flax is now ready for the distafif, and is spun intothread, as shown in Fig. XVI. If linen cloth of the naturalcolor is desired, it is woven into cloth at once; but if thewhite effect is wanted, the thread is sometimes boiled andbleached before weaving. Oftener, however, the thread is. FIGURE XV. woven and the cloth bleached. The quickest w^ay to accom-plish this is to use chloride of lime. The part of the threadto be used as woof is taken from the spool of the spinning-wheel and placed on the bobbins of the shuttles to be usedin weaving. That part of the thread to be used as warp ismeasured off on a large reel. From the warping-mill it is 209 taken to the warp-beam of t^ie loom. The ends of thethread are threaded through the harnesses and reed, andfastened to the cloth-beam just beneath the harnesses. Theloom is now ready for the woof. This line of work is especially adapted to the sixth gradebecause of its close relation to the history work of that gradeand the linen industries of Ireland.
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