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Scutching is beating the useful parts of the fiber from the woody parts. Sorta like separating the wheat from the chaff, but a little more violent.

And no, I didn't know that until you asked me, expecting I would know, and looked it up so as not to disappoint!


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Thanks, Fiberbabe. Now can you answer this? I have read that at Valley Forge one of
the most disagreeable things the troops suffered from, was a horrible irritation from
their home-made linen underwear. At which step was their mom's processing of the
flax inadequate?


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>Scutching is beating the useful parts of the fiber from the woody parts. Sorta like separating the wheat from the chaff, but a little more violent.

And the fiber is then used for making high-quality paper.

Scutch is the stuff that reams are made on.



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Dear TEd: your spelling is atrocious. Scotch is the stuff dreams are made of.


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