From Flax to Linen

In our modern world the technical terms sound quaint: the flax is carded, retted, crushed, swingled, spun and woven. In the old days these were everyday activities in the Swiss countryside. Try your hand at spinning the thread until you have made some fine linen cloth, and sample the traditional "Brächete-Brönnts" schnapps.

The Interest Group for the Mule (IGM) will be guesting this weekend. In addition to an information stand, mule rides for the little ones are offered. The location is at the farmhouse from Ostermundigen, Berne (331).

Saturday programme:

• Discover how flax is made into fine linen at the farmhouse from Madiswil, Berne (321).
• Theme ‘Trick 77’
  Practise circus tricks/lifehacks/ground work with the mules, from 11.00 to 16.30 in the arena below the barn from Faulensee (341)

Sunday programme:

• Discover how flax is made into fine linen at the farmhouse from Madiswil, Berne (321).
• In the morning: field work as in the old days, sowing with draught animals
• Demonstration of the skills of the mules / presence of muleteers in historical dress from 12.30 pm
• Mule riding for the kids from 14.00 to 15.00 at the farmhouse from Ostermundigen BE (331)
• The fairy tale of flax will also be told in the hayloft at the farmhouse in Ostermundigen BE (331) at 11.00 am, 1.00 pm, 2.00 pm and 3.00 pm, and there will be an explanation of the effects of flax (in German only).