Mystery Item

What do you think this is?  

I know that some of you folks will get this right away.  

Others will not have a clue. 

Good luck in your guesses!

Lots of good guesses folks!   The two most common guesses were either a boot scraper or a hackle.
Drum roll please!


It is a flax hackle.  
To see a hackle being used check out the following video.

Flax Processing

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