Scutching flax fibre
More Info →- Description
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The final stage in the preparation of the flax fibre is Scutching; a process in which the dried flax fibre is polished between two wooden surfaces.
As part of Local History Week, members of the public and City Library staff visited Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom and the Flax Stripper Museum in Foxton.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- IMCA Digital Archive
- Date
- October 30, 2018
- Digitisation id
- 2018BD_2018-46_025377
- Format
- Born Digital
- Held in
- IMCA Digital Archive
Creation
- Created By
- Adam Melville
- Place
- Foxton
Object rights
- License
- By Attribution Alone
Taxonomy
- Community Tags