retting
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Within Vinony's link graph, retting is referenced by 58 other articles, and connects out to England, fungi and Scandinavia.
Vinony files it under Hemp and Textile arts.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Material used
- bast fibre
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- Hanfstengel.jpg
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- Flax retting
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Water retting
- Dew retting
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thumb|Flax being laid out in a field for dew retting,
Retting is a textile process for separating the bast fibre in plants from the non-fibrous materials to create fibers that can be spun into yarn. The separation is primarily achieved through either a microbial or chemical action degradating the cementing compounds that bind the bast fibres to other plant tissues, allowing the fibers to be isolated. Retting can be used to create fibers from plants such as flax, hemp, nettles, ramie, bamboo, and jute.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “retting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.