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So in researching my family tree I came across an occupation I’d never heard of, doesn’t exist anymore and isn’t in this list: scutcher. What is that? Someone
by cletus 7y ago
So in researching my family tree I came across an occupation I’d never heard of, doesn’t exist anymore and isn’t in this list: scutcher.
What is that? Someone who separates linen fibers from flax seeds, a job quite literally replaced by the industrial revolution.
It makes me wonder if in another 200 years how many jobs will be looked at in the same way. Hopefully, a lot.
- bregma 7y agoA scutcher separates the bast fibers from the flax. It's the job of a thresher to separate the seeds from the flax chaff. They're two different jobs, and you can only scutch after retting and breaking but if you ret the flax, you can't thresh any more.
- PTOB 7y agoThe entire linen-making process is shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFuj7sXVnIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFuj7sXVnIU
- saalweachter 7y agoTo bring 'round to programming, will "Fortran programmer" be on that list? C, Java, Python, LISP programmer? "Programmer?"