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  2. Heckling (flax) - Wikipedia

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    Heckling (or "hackling") is the last of three steps in dressing flax, or preparing the fibers to be spun. It splits and straightens the flax fibers, as well as removes the fibrous core and impurities. [1] Flax is pulled through heckling combs, which parts the locked fibers and makes them straight, clean, and ready to spin. [2]

  3. Flax - Wikipedia

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    An 18th-century heckling shop once used to prepare flax fibers. North Ayrshire, Scotland. Flax fiber is extracted from the bast beneath the surface of the stem of the flax plant. Flax fiber is soft, lustrous, and flexible; bundles of fiber have the appearance of blonde hair, hence the description "flaxen" hair.

  4. Scutching - Wikipedia

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    A person scutching flax Threshing, retting and dressing flax at the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum. Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax or hemp in preparation for spinning. The scutching process separates the impurities from the raw material, such as the seeds from raw cotton or the straw and woody stem from ...

  5. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

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    Heckling Fibre is pulled through various sized heckling combs. A Heckling comb is a bed of sharp, long-tapered, tempered, polished steel pins driven into wooden blocks at regular spacing. A good progression is from 4 pins per square inch, to 12, to 25 to 48 to 80. The first three will remove the straw, and the last two will split and polish the ...

  6. Comedian escorted away after heckling Nancy Pelosi at book ...

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    A comedian was escorted away from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after he posed as a Democrat and heckled her over her stock trading, calling her “the greatest options trader of all time ...

  7. Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate - Wikipedia

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    Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787. During the years 1781–1782, at the age of 23, Robert Burns (1759–1796) lived in Irvine, North Ayrshire for a period of around 9 months, [1] [2] whilst learning the craft of flax-dressing from Alexander Peacock, who may have been his mother's half-brother, working at the heckling shop in the Glasgow Vennel. [3]

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