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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

2008-08-22

1937

t's just the whole life of the peasants something Closed. From the seed that he will put in the ground until the bread he eats, he has everything there. And now, for example, the flaxseed bread is eaten with pleasure. I think the least that it can taste good, think, remember that these little black grains are the raw material for the linen. The table cloth was here, for example. That's a lot of work. In Stubai say the farmers' of flax, "but said" the hair ". The hair, not the hair, the hair. "The hair goes through 72 hands until it is worn once." So much work is it, 72 Hands. I have not counted, but it suggests it really is an infinite amount of work. Needs so much care, even the seeding. Must be a very well prepared field. Then you can. So we took like older people who had already experienced. Do not sow too close. And when it comes up, you had to weed, with the hand. Each pluck out weeds. I have pictures of where three generations of the flat are weeding, weeding are the hair. Because it would have to come later in the sling, came to the weaver, or what I know. " Man has had to pull everything. And even if the flax plants were too close, you had to pull out some so the other can grow well.