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1 Touch-Pin
A square or triangular steel pin set upright in a block of hard wood, used in roughing flax to break off the loose fibres left in the hackle. The pin is usually of about 1-in. side, and projects about 2-in. above the block. The edges of the pin are smooth. -
2 Sorting Flax
The sorting of flax is a hand operation, that follows machine hackling. The sorter or flax dresser pulls the machine-hackled flax through the pins of a hand hackle termed a " ten " or " eighteen " two or three times until it is level and smooth, and then removes the inferior ends by breaking them off on the touch pin. The sorter then classes the pieces according to quality, and builds the pieces into bunches of like quality, usually about 20-lb. to a bunch. -
3 Roughers
Operators in flax preparations who comb the fibres by hand through a coarse hackle in order to separate short and irregular fibres and level the ends. This operation is only necessary when the flax has been badly handled by the puller and scutcher. The roughers' tools consist of a coarse hackle and a " touch pin." ———————— The term given to woollen cloths just after leaving the loom, as they usually appear to be rough. Finishing takes the rough, fuzzy look off the fabrics.
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