This Plate, representing the common Method of Beetling, Scutching and Hackling the Flax, ATHM# 1111.768.4, 1783
Item — mapcase folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Plate IV. Engraving. Image shows a young woman seated on the left beetling the flax; the woman seated on the left is scutching the flax with a long wooden blade as is the woman on the right in the background. The man on the right is drawing the flax through a series of blocks containing different size hackle pins to remove any pieces of straw from the flax.
Dates
- 1783
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
0.11 cubic feet
Format:
Graphics
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository