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https://magiclinen.com/blogs/blog/how-is-linen-made
Ridiculously complicated. And there were oral folk tales passed along for years to keep the cultural memory of it.
Eventually Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm wrote their versions down.
Andersen: https://fairytalez.com/flax/
Grimm: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/175/grimms-fairy-tales/3081/mothe...
There were cultures thousands of miles apart with their own linen stories and games that all encode linen processing. There are more than these if you look for them:
https://ltfai.org/app/uploads/2021/03/Flax-journey.pdf
https://folklorefairytales.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/the-disc...
https://magiclinen.com/blogs/blog/how-is-linen-made
Ridiculously complicated. And there were oral folk tales passed along for years to keep the cultural memory of it.
Eventually Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm wrote their versions down.
Andersen: https://fairytalez.com/flax/
Grimm: https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/175/grimms-fairy-tales/3081/mothe...
There were cultures thousands of miles apart with their own linen stories and games that all encode linen processing. There are more than these if you look for them:
https://ltfai.org/app/uploads/2021/03/Flax-journey.pdf
https://folklorefairytales.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/the-disc...