How to Make Linen from Flax

Deborah Colburn, our Historic Trades Interpreter Supervisor, shows us the 18th century method of harvesting Flax into fabric.

[@bluepsiongamer4909]

Finally I understand what it means in fantasy books when people have "flaxen" hair :)

[@Ambush1703]

It's amazing you can get this kind of stuff out of a plant. It looks so much like hair. Thank you for sharing.

[@Peggysmusic]

Very interesting! I'm amazed at human ingenuity for figuring out how to make threads, then fabric out of a plant!

[@dilectusfilius3633]

Slaves did a great job!!

[@grandmaday9575]

Egyptians were doing this over 5,000 years ago. This video makes it seem like George Washington invented this process.

[@BeHappyTo]

@@grandmaday9575 nowhere in the video they say that they invented it.

[@ronibralo778]

Áno, ale bola to ťažká a zdĺhavá práca, od vysiatia až po konečný produkt 🙂

[@MissSchnickfitzel]

​@@dilectusfilius3633 its white people who showed them.

[@iPervy]

Thankk you for this! Fixing to grow my own flax plants (was for the seeds) and had no idea it was the same thing as linen/linseed. Haha such a useful crop for a homestead!

[@mizzlemoonglade4996]

Cool video. I'd always wondered how exactly it was made..

[@christiangab1227]

Thank you for sharing how to make linen from flax seeds you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^

[@zelmerjoe]

My dad and many other farmers grew flax in the 1950's and 1960's because as a grain it was a lucrative crop in terms of price per bushel. As a side they would sell the 'straw' to a third party which would bale and stack it temporarily in the field to be picked up later.

[@suchbolo5742]

Short and concise video that explained everything very nicely. Thank you !

[@birkk]

"George Washington had a team of skilled enslaved spinners" - powerful passive voice. They just happened to be enslaved, who can say how or why?

[@ahmedshinwari]

The whites don't care either ... and they say _it was only our grandpa that was a bad man_ , and yet they would do the same injustice/cruelty to the people outside of their country ... Did they really learn?

[@Therealtopg420]

She sounded proud saying it😂

[@abbyp2390]

What a neat video! Great explanation!

[@NY-rg3gy]

This was very informative. Thank you.

[@JRain234]

I like how she says “George Washington did” this and that… And then at the end we find out who’s actually doing this and that… Hilarious

[@tstirling8]

Exactly. Like, Oh GW was so industrious, he really knew how to work the land. Uh, no, he just was a slave owner.

[@Ilimar1]

What a pain! But there were only limited options for inexpensive material.

[@lesallison9047]

Fantastic video, thank you. ✌💚 🇬🇧

[@bernice_anders]

Image how wealthy the offspring of the enslaved skilled workers would be today if those enslaved ppl got to make money off of their skill instead of the unskilled human traffickers

[@frenchtoast9387]

retard

[@arnavsarena4444]

Nicely explained👍🏻 such a nice video

[@gettended]

Thanks! Just harvested some flax I wanna try it!

[@jesussaves4142]

What George Washington really did was realize that his slaves had a skill for making linen and exploited that.

[@mitchyoung93]

I'm guessing all this technology came from Europe.

[@7ajhubbell]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@Scrungge]

Linen is made using exactly the same tool to make rope from hemp, interesting. Cool video :)

[@writerinrwanda]

Really interesting, thank you!

[@karitauring7361]

"skilled enslaved workers..." were they Irish? were they of African descent? I think it is important to know on whose skilled labor our nation was built. Thank you.

[@richardwilliams1047]

Thought their was a slim chance you might be interested in knowing that George Washington Inherited his slaves, and was very anti slavery. There were laws in Virginia making it very difficult to free your slaves except on your death, which he did. He treated his "slaves" like family. And I'm sure they felt the same. Jefferson was in the same boat. Regardless every significant invention you take for granted today came from the North before the Civil War. While the South was still picking cotton we were busting crap out in factories, and making superior weaponry. That's what freedom will get you. The Civil War is also where the price of The African American freedom was paid. So all the ones whining rite now should get a job. Or maybe take a real stand for our freedom that's being lost. Their ancestors would be ashamed.

[@elizabethfrei9362]

they were human beings before anything. yknow, people. a word and concept we’ve seem to forgotten recently

[@ChristopherJones16]

​@@richardwilliams1047 Civil War wasnt fought over Slavery... that was the excuse they used.. it was really over the banks and the cotton plantations. The South is where all the money was since it had all the Cotton. You can brag about "superior weaponry" and "factories" but that didnt make America rich.. the Cotton and Textiles industry did. The Northern Bankers (the Zionists) wanted to own all that as they now do today. This is why Lee freed all his slaves and said if he could free all the slaves he would (to help put an end to the media's/bankers propaganda that the way was about slavery which is was NOT). Also Lee's wife was a descendant of George Washington. Those who fought for the North were a bunch of fools who only signed up because they needed the money, just like the fools who enlist today. They didnt make this country a better place to live.. If the South had won we wouldnt be over-ran with Communist and Marxists today and BLM wouldnt be marching through the streets burning down our shops. What is funny is the same bankers and media owners are the ones who owned the slave ships, and the slave trading posts.. and owned the majority of slaves in America. Many scholars believe they brought the blacks here as slaves just so they could set the stage for the civil war in later down the road. Adam Weishaupt planned the next couple 100 years for America and nothing is a coincidence. Everything that happens here is ALL by design.

[@mrwaddahshooter]

More people are getting red pilled everyday

[@pangalactic42]

@@ChristopherJones16 um, you might want to reread the cornerstone speech.

[@katieb239]

"George Washington had a team of skilledenslavedspinners" hmmm

[@luissandoval4977]

Isn't it easier to say the 'slaves' instead of 'the enslaved workers'?

[@deeez00]

Sure, if you want to be a jerk about it.

[@issanewdaywithginarenee]

The term enslaved as opposed to slave is used to distinguish between a person’s circumstance and their humanity. People are enslaved, being enslaved does not change your identity to a slave.

[@katieled8909]

It’s more humanizing to say “enslaved person”.

[@robertjosephchittinappilly1180]

Good informative time managed video 👍👍

[@muktanram2461]

Really i like to work this linen faiber fabric where from this youtube video know day i am making cotton fabric here my country

[@bahdeng7659]

Thank-you for this explanation 🙂

[@pringlebay.dreams]

Hi, Would love to have a download for this one so that I can show it to my learners as part of the topics "Long Ago" and "How plants help us" - I'm teaching Grade 3 in South Africa. Would you be able to share with me in an email?

[@sparklify8046]

Nice video and explanation clear

[@ronibralo778]

Tak sa to veru robilo, ešte kdesi doma nejaké náradie by sa našlo 👍

[@robmarshallofficial]

Very interesting to watch, I noticed you didn’t show the soaking process which was done in the U.K. is that part of the process which was done in America or did then not do that?

[@EdwinGeorge133]

Good video

[@thebudsofmay]

george washington did this, george washington did that... you tell me he processed flax with his own hands one time lol

[@ColettetheBard]

Yeah, the wording was very cringe-inducing. The history of the art is fascinating, but it feels icky glossing over the issue of slavery to glorify Washington.

[@deeez00]

I'm sure he did it with his own hands when it was necessary. He was a general and leader. He had to train the colonials to battle Britain, sure he had some help but he was the guy in charge. Leaders who lead the way George Washington led have a hands on approach.

[@jeffreyseeds]

@@deeez00 oh, and slaves...

[@MM-du4op]

please don’t say he would have. Washington was a high ranking officer. Making fabric was considered woman’s work or slave work, no man ever did this unless they were a independent small farm with no slaves to work it or it was to add their name to it and profit from it

[@Cinders2001]

Well, he wasn't born the president so I expect he learnt a lot of things before moving into politics.

[@chibigirl8545]

And if it was a mix of both?

[@a.r.golammahadi2190]

Can I sow flaxseed in February?

[@saksija1987]

awesome plant

[@campbub]

Beijing George also like hemp

[@mountvernon]

George Washington DID like hemp! He even grew a bunch of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4OykJKljKp0kNE

[@otoventura]

im here just because playing Pharaoh, thanks

[@katsunoritanka0325]

Hello This video is very very nice !!! Can I feature you on my blog with link?

[@crazyfrogfan]

i have a feeling that white hands never did this work on George washington’s plantation

[@huzaifa2161]

It was my school video

[@FrostSoul-qs6kq]

Damn , his slaves hot to wear linen and I'm here still struggling to find me some cotton to make my summer clothes . WHY IS COTTON SO EXPENSIVE NOW ?

[@4rjohny5]

I'll have to get our slaves to do likewise, thank you for the inspiration, George Washington. :)

[@storage1765]

Mid evil dynasty lol

[@ihavegcc472]

looks like a wig

[@foopadr9076]

"linen then became clothes and underwear for the *ensl4v3d* workers" well.. that's bad.

[@RebekkaHay]

Yes, making clothes for the “enslaved workers” is a real achievement. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Also why are y’all so obsessed with your founding fathers? It’s weird.

[@rosakoko5049]

Oh... TOO MUCH WORK!!! I BETTER GO BUY EILLEN FISHER ORGANIC TOP!!! Much easier 💖

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