Fiber tools: flax hackle

Fiber tools: flax hackle

Flax spinning

Spinning -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Textile machinery

This is an 1800s-era flax hackle; the creator of this item is unknown. After flax has been broken and scutched, it is hackled to remove the last of the plant material. A handful of flax stems or a strick is pulled through the long metal teeth until a fine, smooth fiber remains. The strick is then ready for spinning. This hackle was designed to be hand-held and used a a brush. Flax fiber still remains stuck in the teeth. This tool was collected by Ayleene Bryon and donated to the Southern Highland Craft Guild.

Unknown

Permanent Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1800/1900

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artifacts (object genre)

StillImage

16161

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/16161

2009-06-24

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Appalachian Region, Southern

4" x 15" x 3.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival