Every summer, the Hatchells open their garden for a lively neighborhood party.

The museum displayed a row of antique hatchels used by flax workers to comb fibers.

The artisan carefully ran the hatchel through the bundle of retted flax to separate the fibers before spinning.

Every autumn she would hatchel the flax until the fibers gleamed like silk.

Hatchell stayed late at the office to finish the quarterly report.

The hatchelers gathered at dawn to prepare the flax for spinning.

The experienced hatcheler separated the flax fibers with careful, practiced motions.

Before spinning, the flax had been hatchelled to remove the short fibers and impurities.

After harvesting, she spent the morning hatchelling the flax to prepare it for spinning.

The old hatcheller could tell which flax was worth keeping by touch alone.