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Scutching

Scutching is the mechanical operation which, by breaking and beating the straw flax, separates the textile fibres in the stem of the plant from the woody matter and the bark. The straw is first broken by feeding it between a pair of roundtoothed cylinders.

The broken flax straw is then rubbed and beaten by turbine blades, which remove the short fibres (tow) and the waste woody matter (shives). The layer of fibres which is produced is rolled on. Sometimes it is still taken in handfuls, but this is rather sporadic.

The short fibers were transported to a tow scutching line, containing 6 drums, to seperate the short fibers from the shives.

No part of the flax plant is wasted : scutched flax (long fibres) and scutched tow (short fibres) are used by the spinners. The shives are usedon the one hand by the manufacturers of chip boards, and on the other hand as litter. The seeds can be used as sewing linseed or as a raw material to produce linseed oil.

Scutching Wevelgem

Scutching Le Neubourg

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