What makes linen special?
Thus we find that linen, which is made from flax, has been used as a household and clothing fabric for many millennia. The specialty of linen lies in the fact that its production is an extremely difficult and protracted process because flax requires a great deal of care for its growth. Moreover, flax does not lend itself to weaving easily because of a lack of elasticity, which obviously makes it more expensive to grow commercially than cotton. Given all the trouble required to produce linen, therefore, it had better be pretty darned special to be worth it – and it is! To begin with, linen is stronger and tougher than cotton, owing to the parallel arrangement of its fibers. Second, linen is a highly absorbent material (which makes it perfect for tableware like dish towels and napkins). Basically, linen provides a combination of strength and softness that is hard to match. TrimFabric Linens The special nature of linen is what we focus on at TrimFabric, where we obtain domestic materials
