Boke mill

A Bokemühle , Bockemühle or Bottmühle is a kind of hammer, with which one the bast of the flax fiber exposes.

background

When the flax was harvested, it was first subjected to flax rotting . The term flax roasting or simply roasting was more common . This was a fermentation process that destroyed the inner woody core and the adhesives of the flax stem. If it was dried later, the boken or botten came . During this operation, the fibers were freed from the wood and bark parts by breaking the stems with a wooden mallet. This could also be done in the stamping mill of a mill.

See also

• Tamping mill

literature

• Philipp Oppermann: Small mill knowledge: German history of technology from the friction stone to the industrial mill. 2010, ISBN 3981162676

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Joseph Sonnen: On the history of the Hilden book mill , in: Romerike Berge, magazine for home care in the Bergisches land, 9th year 1959/60, p. 105ff.
2. ↑ Brockhaus, Handbuch des Wissens in four volumes , first volume A – E, Leipzig 1926, p. 313.