Natural Heavyweight Linen -Remnants- $34.00 yd.
Natural Heavyweight Linen Linen cloth, such as this Natural Heavyweight 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. Our Natural Heavyweight Linen is heavy weight with a 1 over 2 weave. Suitable for stay layers, buckram, work aprons, men's trousers and breeches, jackets, heavy petticoats, bedgowns of the meanest sort, waistcoats and hunting frocks, and utilitarian needs. 100% Polish Linen, 56 inches wide. 10.64 oz per sq yard, 360.73 grams per sq meter