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1 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. -
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3 linen
شراشِف \ linen: articles that are made from linen or cotton and are used in the home (shirts, sheets, tablecloths; but not sails, tents, etc., which may also be of heavy linen cloth). \ See Also إلخ مَصْنوعة من الكِتّان -
4 Cloth Of Raynes
A fine linen fabric, formerly made in Britanny, and used for shirts and bed linen during the 14th and 15th centuries. -
5 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. -
6 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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7 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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8 Linen Reed Count
There are two systems in use, in addition to the one for the heavy linens (see Dundee Reed Counts), viz.: - that for drills which is based upon the number of beers or porters of 40 threads (20 splits) on 30-in.; the other used for Irish damasks, is based upon the number of beers of 20 splits or 40 threads contained in the width of the cloth which is usually given in quarter yards. Thus 100 beer 5/4, or 100 beer 8/4, means 2,000 splits or 4,000 threads on 45-in. and 72-in respectively. -
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[ˈlɪnɪn] nounقِماش كَتّانlinen sheets.
2) articles made of linen or, now more usually, cotton:شَراشِف كُتّانbed-linen.
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10 Indian Linen
This is a fine linen cloth from 28-in, to 40-in. wide, plain weave, 80 ends and 80 picks per inch or more, about 80's to 90's linen yarns. The same cloth is used in the home trade for many purposes. The name is also given to an all-cotton cloth made with fine yarns, the cloth being given a glazed finish. -
11 Butcher's Linen
A strong, heavy linen cloth in plain weave, made from long fibre flax yarns in blue and bleached stripes. Used for butchers' aprons, and the same quality of cloth when all white for dresses and suitings. -
12 Smock Linen
A 19th century coarse linen cloth used for coats, aprons, smocks, screens, etc. It was a green linen material. -
13 Hardanger Cloth
A special cloth used for needlework and embroidery. It is woven 40-in. wide and from mercerised yams in 2 & 2 mat or basket weave. The finish is soft and usually in white, ecru and light helio. The term comes from the Hardanger needlework of the peasants in Norway, who used a coarse bleached linen cloth and ornamented it with coloured embroidery designs. -
14 Boiled Linen
Linen cloth which has been de-gummed by boiling in soda lye. -
15 Cream-Twill Linen
A special linen cloth made for embroidery in 72-in. width. -
16 Donau Linen
A linen cloth of Austrian make in brocade designs, with borders or border stripes in colour, usually blue or red. -
17 Tecklenburg Linen
Very strong and lasting plain weave linen cloth formerly made in Germany. -
18 Twine Cloth
Made of two-fold cotton yarns and with a glazed finish. Also made with single yarn to imitate linen cloth; used for shirt making. From 32-in. to 36-in. wide. -
19 Mummy Cloth
A fabric resembling crepe, composed of silk warp and wool weft in the best qualities, with cotton warp in lower grades, and used as mourning in black because of its lustreless surface. Fine closely woven plain linen fabric used in ancient Egypt for wrapping mummies. The best examples have two-fold warp and single weft and two or three times as many warp ends as picks. One example has 140 ends and 64 picks per inch, 100's linen warp and weft. One wrapping cloth from a mummy contained 540 threads of warp per inch. Unbleached, plain woven, heavy linen or cotton fabrics, used as a ground cloth for embroidery is known as mummy. A crinkled lustreless black cloth made with cotton warp and wool weft is called momie cloth. -
20 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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Linen Cloth — See Fair Linen Cloth … American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Fair Linen Cloth — , Fair White Linen Cloth In the Communion Office there are two rubrics, the first of which reads as follows: The Table, at the Communion time having a fair white linen cloth upon it, etc. By this is meant the long linen cloth the breadth of … American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
linen — (n.) cloth from woven flax, early 14c.; earlier as an adjective, made of flax (c.1200), from O.E. linin (adj.) made of flax, from lin flax, linen thread, cloth, from W.Gmc. *linam (Cf. O.S., O.N., O.H.G. lin flax, linen, Ger. Leinen linen, Goth.… … Etymology dictionary
linen — Cloth made from flax which grew well in the low, hot areas of the Jordan valley. Fine woven cloth was a luxury (Judg. 14:12–13), and was much sought after by the wealthy (Luke 16:19). Because of its quality, linen was used for the tabernacle… … Dictionary of the Bible
Linen — Lin en (l[i^]n [e^]n), a. [OE., fr. lin linen. See {Linen}, n.] 1. Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking. [1913 Webster] 2. Resembling linen cloth; white; pale. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
linen — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cloth, material, flaxen fabric, sheeting, linen cloth. Types of linen include: damask, single damask, five leaf damask, eight leaf damask, linen duck, linen huckaback, linen crash, dowlas, osnaburg, low sheeting, low brown… … English dictionary for students
linen — n. & adj. n. 1 a cloth woven from flax. b a particular kind of this. 2 (collect.) articles made or orig. made of linen, calico, etc., as sheets, cloths, shirts, undergarments, etc. adj. made of linen or flax (linen cloth). Phrases and idioms:… … Useful english dictionary
linen — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English līnen, from līn flax, from Latin linum flax; akin to Greek linon flax, thread Date: before 12th century 1. made of flax 2. made of or resembling linen II. noun Date: 14th century 1 … New Collegiate Dictionary
Linen — 1) Heb., pishet, pishtah, denotes flax, of which linen is made (Isa. 19:9); wrought flax, i.e., linen cloth , Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; Deut. 22:11. Flax was early cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31), and also in Palestine (Josh. 2:6; Hos. 2:9).… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
linen — lineny, adj. /lin euhn/, n. 1. fabric woven from flax yarns. 2. Often, linens. bedding, tablecloths, shirts, etc., made of linen cloth or a more common substitute, as cotton. 3. yarn made of flax fiber. 4. thread made of flax yarns. 5. wash one s … Universalium
linen — n. 1. Cloth of flax, flaxen fabric, linen cloth. 2. Thread of flax, linen thread. 3. Under garments … New dictionary of synonyms
