Experts decide the crucial moment of flax harvest by scrutinizing its fibers that must neither be too dry nor wet. Taken to the factory, the bales unroll on the scutching carpet. The controllers make sure to display a homogeneous layer that goes through various rollers that would rid the fiber of its wood and bark. The scutching enters a long process resulting in golden ribbons, thin as hairs, that make the reputation of the Terre de Lin cooperative.