A mill in Northern Ireland in which flax is processed to make linen: (right) the flax is broken between rotating rollers, then (left) scutched by blades on a rotating wheel; a woman with a child carries away bundles of flax. Coloured stipple engraving by W. Hincks, 1791.

Previous title, replaced April 2023 : A woman with a child is carrying skeins of wool and men work the untreated wool through machines. Coloured stipple engraving.

[London (Spafields)] : [R. Pollard], [June 20, 1791]

1 print : stipple engraving, with watercolour

To the Right Hon.ble Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved 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. Dedicated by his lordship's obedient and much obliged servant Wm. Hincks. Wm. Hincks delin et sculp

Wellcome Collection 31349i