Flax Heritage sites in Europe

[Sarah Lowengard <sarahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

[I just noticed this on the history of technology blog (SHOTnews.com)
and thought it might interest some of you - Sarah]

The Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology <http://www.vvia.be>
is preparing a list of flax heritage sites in Europe linked with the
preparation of flax fibres (growing, harvesting, retting, scutching,
combing and hackling, …) and the side-products of this process
(linseeds, flax chaff, flaxstraw, etc.), not the spinning and weaving of
flax.

They seek information about museums and collections that document these
processes and buildings and sites connected to these processes that have
been preserved or protected by law.

One of the associations’s member societies recently restored a small
flax scutching windmill <http://www.preetjesmolen.be>, so they are
especially interested to know if other mills of this type still exist.

Contact: vvia@xxxxxxx <mailto:vvia@xxxxxxx>


From SHOT news: News of the History of Technology
http://shotnews.net/?m=200705 (7 May 2007)