Straight into the scutching room to find Evelyn.

Scutching is done several ways by machine.

Evelyn trailed back into the scutching room and stared hopelessly at the huge basket.

Waste material from the first scutching, consisting of shives and short fibres, is usually treated a second time.

And then the scutching began again.

Just then Mother Bombie came trundling up, so they legged it into the scutching room.

In the scutching process some of the fiber is also scutched away along with the stalk, a normal part of the process.

The mill at Ballakermeen, Onchan was a scutching and corn mill.

Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax in preparation for spinning.

One method of machine scutching is to crush the stalks between two metal rollers so that parts of the stalk can be separated.

Hand scutching of flax is done with a wooden scutching knife and a small iron scraper.

At three o'clock, when Biff's flask was empty, he let Joy Prentice down from her stool and sent her into the scutching room.

Mixing & Scutching Scutching refers to the process of cleaning cotton of its seeds and other impurities.

Scutching mills started in Ireland, and were commonly used there by 1850, at a time when hand scutching was still common in Continental Europe.

In 1910, corn and flax scutching were the main industries and an Agricultural and Dairy Society and Co-operative Poultry and Egg Society had been established.

As she pushed the emptied skip back towards the scutching room for the umpteenth time, her legs simply stopped working and she sagged against the basket, fighting down a wave of dizziness and nausea.

Learn the craft of making linen from the flax plant as the descendants of Ligonier Valley demonstrate their skill at the 101st Flax Scutching Festival in Stahlstown, Sept. 12-13.

The Stahlstown Flax Scutching Grounds is home to the nations second oldest continued Flax Scutching Festival [1], held annually in the month of September.

They can learn firsthand about making flax into linen by using scutching, braking and hackling tools, and get a chance to spin wool into yarn with a drop spindle or try their hands at making apple butter and churning cream into butter.

Scutching: In order to remove some of the straw from the fiber, it helps to swing a wooden scutching knife down the fibers while they hang vertically, thus scraping the edge of the knife along the fibers and pull away pieces of the stalk.