{"id":5306,"date":"2020-09-26T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2020-09-26T12:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T10:11:42","slug":"flax-processing-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/flax-processing-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Flax processing at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have grown flax in our townhouse flower bed since 2014. It is only one square meter and I call it my experimental flax patch. Every fall I have taken last year’s retted flax to the Flax Days at Skansen Outdoor museum to process. It has become a tradition that I look forward to every year. This year was different. The Flax Days were cancelled due to the pandemic. Luckily I now have a complete set of flax processing tools, so I did my flax processing at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ripple<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During the late summer I have presented my flax processing tools, but I was missing a flax ripple. My friend Cecilia made a beautiful ripple and I decided to make one myself. I bought wire nails from Swedish eBay and nailed them into a board I found on the attic. It is not the prettiest ripple I have seen, but I have made it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n