Flax is a one of the most difficult cultures, despite the weather circumstances of the traditional flax countries were considered as favorable. Not only weather circumstances, but also the composition of the ground, the used fertilizers, and the presence of knowledge and experience, influences the flax culture.
Since the foundation of the company end of the nineteenthirties, the main activity of our firm was the growing, harvesting and scutching of straw flax, as it is now. The most of our flax is growing in the French Departments Eure, Seine-Maritime and environment. Albert Brille is yearly harvesting and scutching more than 4.000 hectares of straw flax.
Normally flax is sown at the end of March or the beginning of April and is ready for harvesting in a comparatively short period of around 100 days. Flax is harvested from the beginning of July to mid-August...
Scutching is the mechanical operation which, by breaking and beating the straw flax, separates the textile fibres in the stem of the plant from the woody matter and the bark. The straw is first broken by feeding it between a pair of roundtoothed cylinders...
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LICENSE SCUTCHING: CEBE22009
