Processing and Manufacturing Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Animal products Plant products Textiles Minerals Metals Former lint mill, Edradour, Perthshire Lint mills separated the fibres in the stems of flax plants, in perparation for heckling and spinning. The first were built in the 1720s; in the century which followed some 700 were added. The flax (known in Scotland as 'lint') was previously steeped in ponds, some of which can still be traced, then dried. After processing at the lint mill, the lint was 'heckled' (combed) and spun (by machine from the 1780s onwards), woven and bleached. This last process was also mechanised during the 18th century; there were more than 200 bleachfields at that time. There was a lint mill at Edradour in 1772, only the second one to be built in the Atholl district. It was still operating during the mid 19th century. By this time it was one of only a few districts where flax was still grown and processed locally. The corrugated iron roof was probably originally thatched. Resource pack   1     2     3     4