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The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and "hackling" and are now done by machinery.
Textiles and Clothing | Kate Heintz WatsonThis first combing process is sometimes called roughing instead of hackling.
Clothing and Health | Helen KinneThe whole operations in yarn manufacture comprise hackling, preparing and spinning.
In the construction of hackling machines, the general principles of those now most commonly adopted are identical.
In the case of hackling by machinery, the flax is first roughed and arranged in stricks, as above described under hand hackling.
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