To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved [sic] rollers, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel, great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax, is most respectfully dedicated by ... Wm. Hincks / Wm. Hincks, delin. et sculp., Hincks, William, artist, Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793., London : Publish'd as the Act directs, by R. Pollard, Spafields, 1791 June 20., 1 print : engraving, hand-colored , 38.3 x 47 cm. (sheet), Print shows an interior view of a 'scutch' mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fiber.
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