(1) One of these books contained illustrations of a hatchel and described how it was used.(2) In this issue we will learn about that often overlooked tool used in flax processing, the hackle, also called a hatchel or a hetchel.(3) In addition to collecting and using my antique spinning wheels and weaving looms, I also have a collection of antique flax hetchels (also known as hatchels ).(4) The crude fibers are combed with hatchels to yield the long spinnable fibers, the short fibers (pluckings or tow) remaining between in the steel teeth of the comb.(5) After the flax had been hatcheled , it was in the form of short, broken fibers called tow.(6) She caught rain water from eaves in a wooden trough; she washed, picked, carded and dyed the wool; pulled, broke, hatchelled , and bleached the hemp; spun the thread, and wove the cloth; designed the style, cut and made the garments.(7) Instead of sowing five pecks to the acre, sow five or more bushels, and you will raise flax as soft as silk; from such flax fibres can be hatcheled as fine as spinster's webs.(8) After opening the small cover, you will see two trails, right side and left side, where the hatchels shall be fixed, being toothed or straights.(9) Flax was raised, and after grandfather had broken, swingled and hatchelled it, grandmother spun it into thread, which sold for $1.50 per pound.(10) They then scutched and hatcheled which was mainly to get off the shaff. Then they spun the inner part of the flax on a flax wheel.
