Royal Blue & Aqua Light Weight Striped Linen - $14.00 yd.

Royal Blue & Aqua Light Weight Striped Linen 

Linen cloth, such as this Royal Blue & Aqua Light Weight Striped Linen was woven of flax fiber in many grades and weaves. Used in every aspect of living from clothing, to household needs, to the shroud made for the corpse, linen was so common that a tax was proposed as a source of easy revenue on the coarser sorts being imported into the US towards the end of the 18th century.

Woven stripes were a common way of inexpensively introducing color and pattern into textiles, as color could be introduced with a linen yarn or, in the case of many Manchester goods, with a cotton yarn. The stripes themselves could be introduced using either the warp or weft yarns.

• This Royal Blue & Aqua Light Weight Striped Linen  is lightweight.
• Suitable for women's gowns, jackets, petticoats, bedgowns, men's waistcoats, linings, and children's clothing.
• Great for other time periods, and wonderful for your next modern make, too!
• 100% Polish Linen, 61 inches wide