Gradually the process continues until one reaches the middle of the fiber bundle. At this point you flip the bundle and grasp it by the tip ends and comb from the root ends to the middle. If you wish to use the bundles of hackled line flax for weaving, some care must be made to keep the fibers in order or else a jumbled mess would result. Stored flax will last indefinitely. Though not known for certain, there is strong reason to believe the origin of flax can be traced to the Caucasus, between the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, and the Black Sea.
Flax fibers are among the oldest and strongest known to man.
In fact the oldest woven cloth on record is that of linen. The use of natural fibers for clothing has been described as the greatest discovery, second to fire that is, made by primitive man. Evidence for the use of natural flax fibers has been found in Stone Age Swiss Lake dwellings. In fact nearly every civilized culture has been associated with its use. How audacious is life and how full of wickedness, for a plant to be grown for the purpose of catching the winds and the storms out of so small a seed springs a means of carrying the whole world to and fro .