I also took many new terms and some unfamiliar steps in flax processing with me from Westphalia.
"Boken"
Boken refers to a soft beating of the flax stalks before crushing with the aim of sparing the fibres during the subsequent crushing, because the crusher does not have to fall on the stalks with so much force. This step was unknown to me until now.
"Knucke and Bolten"
The first hacking step here is a hack with very widely spaced teeth (1.5 cm) to break off the upper tips of the plants. The waste served as padding material. It was important to break all the wooden parts of the flax finely. A crusher with upright iron edges was used for this soft breaking.
For the final fine panting, the iron nails were tightened with each work step. The last short fibres were combed out and the long fibres were split open by hitting the tips of the hay. A "Knucke" (flax plait) was tied from the processed bundles. The finished bales of linen were called "bolts".
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