In this Irish linen documentary we show the growing of flax and the making of Irish linen. This film originally called "Lint & Linen" recreates the flax harvest of the 1950's in the North of Ireland. We follow a team of local men who plant a field of flax as their fathers would have done a generation before. The flax is then pulled and retted to separate the linen fibre. This material is then taken to the scutcher where it is processed enabling it to be spun into yarn. We cover the final processes and at the end we show a piece of Irish Linen woven from the field of flax. Please check out our channel to see more traditional crafts of Ireland.

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