Linen cloth, such as this Yellow & Celadon 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.
- This Yellow & Celadon Striped Linen is light weight.
- Suitable for women’s gowns, summer jackets, aprons, accessories, and petticoats; men’s summer jackets, linings, and waistcoats; as well as children’s garments.
- 100% Polish Linen, 60 inches wide.
- 6 oz per sq yard, 204.5 grams per sq meter
