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1 Linen Yarn
Linen or flax yarn is very strong and weaves well, although it has little elasticity. It can be bleached to a snowy white (See also Flax). (See Dry and Wet Spinning). Boiled Linen Yarn has been boiled in soda lye and there is a loss in weight of from 5 to 10 per cent. Creamed Linen Yarn is first boiled, then treated with bleaching powder and the loss in weight is 10 to 12 per cent. -
2 Linen Yarn Counts (Fine Or Wet Spun)
The basis for counting linen yarns is fixed by Act of Parliament. The reel is 90-in. in circumference.
The count is the number of leas of 300 yards that weigh 1-lb. Linen yarns are sold by the bundle of 200 leas, and a number of bundles, varying with the weight, are made into a "bunch". Thus 14's is made into 11/2-bundle bunches, 24's into 3-bundle bunches, 30's into 6-bundle bunches, and so on.
The Dorset and Somerset system takes the weight of 21,600 yards (called " dozen " or 12 half-hanks of 1,800 yards each).
In France the pacquet contains 260,000 yards.
In Belgium the pacquet contains 180,000 yards.
Metric system - The counts indicate the number of kilometres (1,000 metres) of yarn in one kilogram (2.2-lb.) Dictionary of the English textile terms > Linen Yarn Counts (Fine Or Wet Spun)
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3 Linen Yarn Counts
Coarse or dry-spun linen yarns are chiefly manufactured in Scotland and the counts are determined in the same way as jute yarns (see Jute and Heavy Linen) -
4 Jute And Heavy Linen Yarn Counts
The counts of jute yarn are indicated by the weigh in pounds of one spyndle of 14,400 yards. Thus, 10-lb. yarn means that 14,400 yards weigh 10-lb., and so on. These yarns are sold by the spyndle, arrived at as table: - The reel is 90-in. in circumference.
Dictionary of the English textile terms > Jute And Heavy Linen Yarn Counts
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5 Boiled Linen Yarn
Flax yams boiled in soda lye, with a loss of from 5 to 10 per cent in weight. Yarns intended for thread are usually boiled to render them soft and flexible, or to make them lighter in colour. Yams for the fine white linens are also usually boiled to reduce their bulk and enable a lighter and firmer cloth to be produced. -
6 Creamed Linen Yarn
Flax yarns that have first been boiled, then bleached with bleaching powder. They lose about 10 to 12 per cent in weight (see Flax)Dictionary of the English textile terms > Creamed Linen Yarn
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7 Linen Crepes
All these fabrics are termed crepes, entirely because of their weave structure and no crepe yarn is used for any of them. A linen crepe is made of ordinary linen yarns. The irregular surface of the cloth is produced by the varied lengths of yarn floats, and some of the designs are so elaborate that jacquards are required to weave them. -
8 Linen
Cloth made of flax. The fabrication of linen in England was not carried on to any great extent before the middle of the 16th century. It was made here in the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Linen was worn as garments for wear next to the skin. In the 14th and 15th centuries much linen was imported from abroad, cloth of Lake, cloth of Rennes, cloth of Ypres and of Gaunt, being specially mentioned. The linen most commonly noticed during the Middle Ages for wear was known as " Holland," the cloth woven in that country, and the name has descended to the present day. In the reign of Charles II an act was passed for the encouragement of the manufacturing of all kinds of linen cloth and tapestry made from hemp or flax. Linen fabrics are manufactured in numerous qualities, bleached, dyed or in natural colour. The varieties of the plain weave fabrics are: - Cambrics, handkerchiefs, lawns, pillow cloth sheetings, hollands, canvas, duck dress linens, brown linens, aeroplane linens, interlinings, sailcloth, scrims, crash, roughs and dowlas. These fabrics differ considerably in setting and yarns. Fancy weave cloths comprise diapers, damasks, honeycombs, huckabacks, drills, towels, etc. All the above fabrics are imitated in cotton and many are cheapened by using cotton warp and flax weft. ———————— One of the oldest known fabrics is that made from flax yarn and called linen. The Egyptians thought linen was an emblem of purity, and used it as a wrapping for their dead. By the term linen is generally meant a medium weight cloth with plain weave, and one that takes the same standing in the linen trade as calico does in the cotton trade. -
9 Linen Crash
An all-linen fabric, woven from coarse yarns which is made 24 ends and 24 picks per inch, 22's lea warp and weft. A similar cloth is made for dress purposes in which a flake weft is used - The weft is red and green flakes. These fabrics only require pressing after leaving the loom. A feature of the fabric is the irregularity of the yarn.
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10 Linen (Boiled)
A few standard types of medium weight and fineness are given herewith: - 1,200 splits on 40-in., 2 in a split and 13 shots on 37/200-in. glass. The warp is 40's and the weft 50's lea boiled yarn. Additional and finer cloths are: -
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11 Linen Handkerchiefs
The cloth for handkerchief making is made from fine boiled line yarn. The sett varies from 40 to 100 ends and picks per inch, and yarns 55's to 100's warp, 60's to 140's weft.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Linen Handkerchiefs
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12 Pound Yarn
During the early years of the 19th century, Irish flax spinners supplied the yarn for weaving bundle linen, Osnaburgs, etc., as pound yarn, because one hank weighed one pound. This yarn was spun in great bulk in the West of Ireland. -
13 Bengal Linen
Is not a flax yarn, but a lustrous fabric which resembles linen. It is made in India from the fibres of the bolls of a native plant. Woven in plain and twill weaves, low reed and pick and medium counts about 12's to 16's. -
14 Camera Linen
A French-made linen fabric; coarse yarns were used in an open weave, usually unbleached yarn. The cloth was afterwards embroidered. -
15 Catgut Linen
An open, plain woven linen fabric, made of handspun yarn. Used for embroidery. -
16 Crewel Yarn
A slackly twisted worsted yarn, used for embroidery in crewel work. The ground fabric of such work is usually linen, but cotton canvas is sometimes employed. Usually obtainable in three sizes. Tapestry crewel, very soft and even; medium crewel and fine crewel. -
17 Brusselette (Linen Trade)
A carpet fabric made from coarse jute yarns in any colour or print, plain weave. Many weights are made and any design possible in stripes or checks. Two beams are generally used, one lightly-weighted for the looping yarn and the other heavily-weighted for ground.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Brusselette (Linen Trade)
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18 Grass Cloth (Canton Linen)
A plain weave fabric made in China from ramie yarns. It is woven on hand looms in coarse reeds and with few picks. The natural lustre of the yams is not interfered with, as the fabric is used in the loom state. A small quantity is dyed blue, or bleached and used for dresses, but the bulk of the cloth is used for table covers in the loom state. Widths are 15-in. or 16-in. and lengths 30 yards, made on native looms. A fabric made of yarn spun from nettle fibre was also known as grass cloth.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Grass Cloth (Canton Linen)
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19 Green Yarn
Trade term for undressed jute or unbleached linen yarns. -
20 льняная пряжа
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