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POOL-RETTING [1 record]

Record 1 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
  • Bast Fibres (Textiles)
CONT

The flax plants ... are tied up in ... beets and immersed for about 10 days in water in special dams or ponds dug in the ground.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Filature (Textiles)
  • Fibres textiles libériennes
CONT

Le rouissage en eau stagnante : même procédé [les bottes sont plongées dans l'eau et y sont laissées le temps nécessaire] mais l'immersion a lieu dans une mare ou un étang.

Spanish

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