Dark Indigo & White Striped Linen - $16.00 yd.

Dark Indigo & White Striped Linen Linen cloth, such as this Dark Indigo & White Striped 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. Woven stripes were a common way of introducing pattern and color into textiles inexpensively. Sometimes the looms were warped with the stripes but likewise stripes were introduced in the weft yarns.   Our Dark Indigo & White Striped Linen is light to medium weight. Suitable for  women’s gowns, jackets, accessories and petticoats; men’s jackets, linings and waistcoats, as well as children’s garments. 100% Irish Linen, 59 inches wide.