Q: Recently, my uncle was given a "flax break" from the late 1700s. An 18th century rustic item of hand made pegged construction. Dorman First Stop HW5072 Disc Brake Caliper Bolt Front,Rear H5079 H5091 H15087 You can find videos on YouTube that show people using antique flax breaks. We have made a flax brake, scutching board and knife, and hackles to do the processing. The spinning can be done on a handspindle or a spinning wheel. Includes: flax hackle, cover, two clamps and tine straightener. Designed to split and straighten flax fibers in preparation for spinning in linen. Flax was the major fibre used in the manufacture of linen, but the small amount produced from this crusher with it's guillotine action would have been sufficient only for the production of hand made lacework. DESIGNED AND MADE IN BRITAIN An oak and elm floor standing flax breaking hand device., possible Welsh. My husband built me a flax break. I prefer to work with a dressed distaff - H and J - to keep the fibers prepared for pulling down to spin. Item Details. A flax break is a set of hinged intersecting wooden blades, which looks like a saw-horse. A: This is one of several special tools used to turn flax into thread. An antique hard maple flax break, circa 1883, used to process flax for making linen. This wood tool is a set of intersecting wooden blades that force the hard outer shell of flax straw to snap into short sections which then fall away from the strong inner fibers before being processed further. 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