Linen
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A 1929 magazine article by Mary Meigs Atwater on linen, covering the history of flax, its cultivation, retting, scutching and hackling, and related fibers such as hemp, jute and ramie. It then turns to practical advice for handweavers: how linen yarn is graded (cuts per pound), line versus round linen, warp versus weft linen, the cost of dyed linen, and which weaves suit linen. It touches on overshot, which tends to look stringy in linen, and damask, which it calls the best weave for linen. Illustrations include a flax-processing photograph and a draft-like grid.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- April-May 1929
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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