I came across old footage on YouTube of a woman dressing a distaff and spinning flax on a spinning wheel. It looked like she was using six stricks, or about a pound and a half (680 g) of line flax. As a four ounce (112 g) strick currently costs about $25 USD, that was pretty expensive. Not to mention the cost of shipping. I don't know of anywhere local that sells flax stricks.
I pulled out my copy of Elsie Davenport's Your Handspinning and was relieved to read that she recommends dressing a distaff with an ounce and a half (42 g) of line flax over a cone of wadded up tissue paper.
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