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Directions to Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival. We are located on Route 711 in Stahlstown, PA 4 miles north of PA Turnpike Exit 91, Donegal 8 miles south of Ligonier coming from Route 30 1703 Route 711, Stahlstown, PA 15687. Admission to the grounds is only $5 per person, children under 12 free. Parking is free.
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The Flax Scutching Festival features descendants of the Ligonier Valley pioneers recreating the art of making linen from the flax plant. The festival also offers a Civil War reenactment and live entertainment. Address: Route 711 Stahlstown, PA 15687 Phone: 724-593-2119 Handicap Access? Y.
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The Flax Scutching Festival offers demonstrations of the complete process of making Linen from the Flax plant. The festival also has great homemade food, crafts, antique farm equipment, live music, civil war encampment, covered wagon train encampment and a staged Indian raid. The Indian raid is a realistic battle between Indians & Settlers.
Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival
Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival. Duration: 2 days. Public · Anyone on or off Facebook. Saturday 9:00-6:00. Sunday 10:00-5:00. Please remember, bring cash for admission at entrance! $5 per person, 12 and under free. (There is an ATM once on the grounds) Please see the attached entertainment schedule and vendor map.
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For Marge Burke, going to the annual Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival each year is a chance to see her book, "Fields of Blue," come to life. The book, which focuses on the eight-step process.
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Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival, Stahlstown, Pennsylvania. 2,485 likes · 2 talking about this · 873 were here. Historic festival est. 1907. Watch how linen was made from the flax plant, homemade.
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Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival. September 16-17, 2023. Visit Website. Monticue Grove 1703 Route 711 Stahlstown, PA 15687 (724) 593-2119 [email protected] . html5 gallery
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Long-time festival celebrates the history of Stahlstown and the art of making linen. Before clothing stores, textile mills, and Eli Whitney's cotton gin, there was linen. The process used at the Flax Scutching Festival in Stahlstown today was the process used by our ancestors in the New World and the Old World: (1) harvesting and drying the FLAX plant, (2) breaking and SCUTCHING for the.
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The 112th annual Flax Scutching Festival will be held Sept. 14-15 at Monticue's Grove in Stahlstown. Hood won't be selling hayride tickets, but she will be one of the people working on a.
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Dried flax bundles on display at the Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival on Sunday, September 19, 2021. Hadleigh Nair, of Rector, Pa., shows off a bundle of freshly picked flax as she emcees an.
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Visit the Flax Scutching Festival in Stahlstown, PA. Video uploaded for the festival. Copyright 2006 Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival. All Rights Reserved.
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The people of Stahlstown have been celebrating the humble plant since 1907 with the annual Flax Scutching Festival. In fact, some residents grow flax — the fibers can be processed and woven into.
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It is considered the oldest flax scutching festival in the western hemisphere. Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax or hemp in preparation for spinning. Opening ceremonies are slated for 9:30 a.m. Saturday near the flagpole, while Stahlstown United Methodist Church will host a worship service at 9 a.m. Sunday at the main stage.
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The Flax Scutching Festival offers demonstrations of the complete process of making Linen from the Flax plant. The festival also has great homemade food, crafts, antique farm equipment, live music, civil war encampment, covered wagon train encampment and a staged Indian raid.
Photo Gallery Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival
Hadleigh Nair, of Rector, Pa., shows off a bundle of freshly picked flax as she emcees an afternoon demonstration during the Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival on Sunday, September 19, 2021.