The black room with partly soot-covered walls has a wooden floor and a brick chimney. In addition to the typical furnishings, it contains the loom on which woollen cloth, long colourful carpets or linen sheets were woven. Linen production was very popular in Orawa. There are also various appliances with pretty names such as ‘nicielnica’ or ‘szpulerz’, flax combs, picks for pounding the stalks, swingles and heckles for breaking and crushing hard shives. It has been calculated that there was an average of 175 metres of woven linen per house in the 19th century and the total production was estimated at over 2 million metres. Young brides used to get ‘kęsy’ or bales of linen as their dowry (wealthy ones could get as many as 40 of them, i.e., almost 1.5 km of linen). The climate and topography allowed for flax crops to be of good quality. Flax was sown in fields where cattle grazed earlier, usually between the day of St. Stanislaus (8 May) and the day of St. Sophia (15 May). Both white flowering flax (good fibre) and blue (oily seeds) were sown. Flax was not mown but picked, i.e., uprooted and then dried in the field in small sheaves. After that, the seeds were separated from stalks with the use of flax combs. Stalks were immersed in water where they stayed for about two weeks until the fibres separated. It was then rinsed in the stream, dried on the meadows for 2 weeks by turning it over twice a day (to the sun during the day and to the dew at night) and then beaten. Dried again, on a stove this time, flax was eventually ready for swingling and combing. Spinners used the combed fibre to make threads on spinning wheels. Such threads were wound onto rollers so that the weaving would begin.