12/23/2022
WHAT IS LINEN FABRIC MADE OUT OF?
If you don’t know what linen fabric is, its origins may surprise you.
Linen is a textile weaved out of fibers of the flax plant. Overnight, linen became very popular because of its strength and versatility.
Flax production began a century ago and was developed from ancestral traditions.
Any household could have been engaged in linen fabric production for personal use or for sale.
Even with the arrival of mechanized workshops in the 18th century, flax production was still done by hand due to the specificity of linen yarn production.
Therefore, linen fabric has always been considered a top material and is used widely in linen bedding production.
The thread for the linen yard comes directly from the stem of a flax plant.
It is necessary to comply with all the details of the traditional extraction process.
Many housewives used primitive wood tools to knead the stems before a laborious process of studding to slide the entire length of the stems.
The result is long fibers that have been cleaned out of liberated peel stalks.
These fibers are then bound into the full thread.
Besides the household textile use, the thread of linen was very popular in rope manufacturing for various applications, especially in the navy field.