Scutching knife
John Boyle
Category
Agricultural and horticultural equipment
Date
1998
Materials
Wood
Measurements
85 mm (Width) x 25 mm (Depth); 420 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Springhill
Order this imageCollection
Wellbrook Beetling Mill, County Tyrone
NT 283305.2
Summary
A wooden paddle-shaped scutching knife or hackler used with a wooden stock (WBM.F.3a) to scrape off any remaining core on the flax fibre after scutching with a scutching clove (see WBM.F.2). Made by John Boyle, estate joiner at Springhill, c.1998, as part of the interpretation of Wellbrook Beetling Mill and the history of linen manufacture.
Makers and roles
John Boyle, joiner