Hesp
Modern equivalent
3,600 yards = 3,292 metres (a quarter of a spyndle)
A Scots linen yarn count of 3,600 yards, four of which make a spyndle.
The Scottish linen trade counted yarn on a reel of ninety inches, so that one turn gave two and a half yards. From there the chain built upward: a hundred and twenty threads made a cut, two cuts a heer, six heers a hesp, and four hesps a spyndle of fourteen thousand four hundred yards.
It is worth being clear that this is a different system from the cotton counts, not a variant of them. A cotton lea is a hundred and twenty yards and a cotton hank eight hundred and forty; the Scots cut and hesp belong to flax, to a different reel, and to a different trade. The two meet only in the spyndle, which both systems recognise.
The sub-divisions are reported with some variation in the older sources, as hand-reeled counts generally are. The relation that holds everywhere is the one the trade actually bought and sold by: four hesps to the spyndle.