This produced about 60% linen flax (long fibers -60 to 90 cm long) 33% tow (short fibers - 10 to 15 cm long) and 'shiv', woody waste formerly used for fuel, nowadays to make chip board.
www.rootsweb.com/~belghist/Flanders/Pages/flaxLinen.htm

Scutching & Hackling
This is a mechanical operation which, by breaking and beating the flax straw, separates the textile fibres in the stem of the plant from the woody matter which is then used for the manufacture of chipboard.
www.fergusonsirishlinen.com/aboutlinen/index.asp

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flax-based board, flaxboard

LINOPAN flaxboard and chipboard
... shives is high; on the upside the fire retardency of the board is increased and it is this which gave Linopan the niche market it needed for flax based board. ...
www.linopan.com/english/pages/article2.htm

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