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Kōrero: Flax and flax working

Drying fibre

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Drying fibre

Washed flax fibre is laid to dry and bleach in paddocks near the mill. This part of the process could take several weeks.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-027129; F

by Will Cameron

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Flax and flax working – The flax fibre industry: 1860s–1930s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10412/drying-fibre (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.