Muted Hazelnut & Blue Striped Linen
Linen cloth, such as this Muted Hazelnut & Blue Striped Linen, 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.
Woven stripes were a common, inexpensive way of introducing color and pattern into textiles. Stripes were introduced in either the warp or weft yarns on the loom. The color could be introduced with a linen yarn or a cotton yarn, as in the case of many Manchester goods. Typically, surviving period textiles contain cotton in the weft yarn, but we have studied some examples with cotton in the warp yarn.
- Our Muted Hazelnut & Blue Striped Linen is lightweight.
- Suitable for women’s gowns, lightweight jackets, aprons, accessories, and petticoats; men’s lightweight jackets, linings, and waistcoats; and children’s garments.
- 100% Irish Linen, 60 inches wide.
- 4 oz per sq yard, 134.7 grams per sq meter
