100% linen, 8.2 oz., 60" wide
Linen with a warp thread of unbleached (~25 threads per inch) and weft thread (also ~25 threads per inch) of half-bleached creates an oatmeal color. Coarse linen like this was commonly used to make hunting frocks, trousers, sailor's trousers (sometimes called slops), haversacks, kettle bags, market wallets, chair seats, linings, and work aprons. Less often slave's shirts and shifts (ouch!), breeches, jackets, waistcoats, and coats. For example in The Virginia Gazette in 1776 "RUN away . . . a small outlandish Negro Fellow . . . He carried away with him . . . 2 Virginia Linen Shirts, one of them very coarse". Linen thread for this would be best hand sewing using 16/2 or 35/2 unbleached.
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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 April, 2007.
