Flax processing Photo 1: Flax processing; harvesting of fibre flax with the flax stretching machine; flax is set up by long needles and led between a set of straps that secure it and thus out of the ground drawing (8,5x11 cm; unknown) Photo 2: Flax processing; after rotting the flax is dried; it is set up in pointed bushes (chapels) on the dry meadow; during drying light and air also exert a bleaching effect on the flax; for uniform drying and bleaching the chapels are turned, where the glued stems must be plucked from each other (8,5x11,5 cm; unknown) Date: undated Keywords: workers, agric


Flax processing Photo 1: Flax processing; harvesting of fibre flax with the flax stretching machine; flax is set up by long needles and led between a set of straps that secure it and thus out of the ground drawing (8,5x11 cm; unknown) Photo 2: Flax processing; after rotting the flax is dried; it is set up in pointed bushes (chapels) on the dry meadow; during drying light and air also exert a bleaching effect on the flax; for uniform drying and bleaching the chapels are turned, where the glued stems must be plucked from each other (8,5x11,5 cm; unknown) Date: undated Keywords: workers, agriculture, flax, flax processing, flax industry


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