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Postal Services are experiencing unprecedented delays due to holiday shopping volume increases and COVID-19 related staffing challenges. In addition, we have temporarily ceased all UK orders for tangible goods due to the new BREXIT-related VAT requirements. Thank you for your patience!
Light Violet Light Weight Linen - $14.00 yd.
6757-1
$3.50
Linen cloth was woven of flax fiber in many grades and weaves. Used in every aspect of living from clothing, to household needs to furnishings 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. Shades of purple ranging from reddish purple to bluish purple were popular from mid-18th century on into the 19th century. Both dyed and stamped purples appear in extant textiles, dyers advertisements, runaway ads and store ads. This purple might have been got with logwood producing the soft bluish-purple color.
- Our linen is a lightweight tightly woven linen suitable for Women’s clothing such as gowns, jackets, aprons and petticoats, Men’s summer jackets, linings and waistcoats as well as children’s garments.
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100% Irish Linen 58 inches wide.
Category: 100% linen , 18th century , 19th century , historic costume , historic textile , light weight , linen fabric , natural fiber , violet