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Story: 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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Nancy Swarbrick, Flax and flax working – The flax fibre industry: 1860s–1930s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10412/drying-fibre (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.