Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel tree of life it measures 6 1/4" tall

it measures 6 1/4" tall x 4 1/4" across at widest

and exactly the sort of thing I am forever searching for

or an engineers cap

but I thought they were worthy of rescuing from a pile at the flea market

decided to make his or her own version in wood

Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel tree of life it measures 6 1/4" tallI'm always admiring old hetchel, which were used to comb flax in preparation of spinning it into thread, but this small scale one is the first I've really felt compelled to purchase, as it seems to me just about the most primitive, distilled iteration of the tool I've seen, and pure sculpture at the same time. Just two rows of old iron teeth here, beautifully rusted and bent here and there, a handful of them a little loose, such that they can be