Linen is THE best fabric for summer clothes! It breaths, it dries extremely fast, it's light, yet protects from the sun. It's incredibly versatile, too!

@ZZMJo

4 жыл бұрын

C'on! Not only for clothes, what about bed sheets, bed cover, table cloth, shoulder bag, storage basket, every kind of cover...curtains, dishcloths, towels, bathrobe,...

@mathaithomas2816

2 жыл бұрын

If you want a creased shirt or garment, avoid linen. Terrywool has a better crease after ironing. Use wool or the sheep feel bad. Use cotton or the cotton farmers feel bad. Use Silk or the silk workers feel bad.Linen too.

@Schody_lol

2 жыл бұрын

Fact: linen bleaches over time.

@theofarmmanager267

2 жыл бұрын

And creases within seconds.

@marialindell9874

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZZMJo Making baguette tradition's! (Yes, it's its a baguette, but made with a different thecnique that takes longer)

Linen is so durable that in the middle ages and up to nearly the present, people itemized household linens, shirts and even underwear in their wills.

As someone who has worked with fabrics all her life I can say that linen is by far the best cloth to work with, it takes on so many aspects, rough or silky and is the perfect all year round fabric to wear.

@starteamuk6415

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I am looking to get some work experience. Through your experiences where would be your advise, that i can to get in touch with? Thank you in advance. Thank you in advance.

@snickerbars4129

2 жыл бұрын

Is linen same as jute which is cultivated in India.. .?.

@sapinta

2 жыл бұрын

@@snickerbars4129 nope

@sapinta

2 жыл бұрын

Except summer. It absorbs your smelly sweat in seconds and holds the smell as well as synthetic fabric. Wear linen and you'll be a smelly, creased mess, faster and longer than cotton.

@calliarcale

2 жыл бұрын

@@snickerbars4129 No, but it is made in a very similar way. Jute and linen are both made from bast fibers, which are long fibers found in plants. It's the phloem of the plant -- very thin tubes that run the length of the plant, just under the bark, to transport water and nutrients between the roots and the leaves and flowers. Linen is made from the bast fibers of the flax plant, which loves growing in the colder climates of northern Europe, while jute is made from tropical mallow plants. Otherwise, the process is very similar -- the plants are pulled up and then retted over a period of time to liberate the fibers.

I finally understand the expression “flaxen hair”! Thank you

@spideywhiplash

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! That's what I was thinking too.😁

@josephyearwood1179

2 жыл бұрын

I at last understand the name “Aflax Amsterdam”

@PeterWalkerHP16c

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's racist speak for Aryan ...

@tracylemme1375

2 жыл бұрын

I thought of that just before I read your comment. Yes it is shiny and beautiful.

@Josh_Fredman

2 жыл бұрын

I had the same thought! I had never seen raw flax fibers combed out like that and spun. It's a dead ringer for golden hair!

Great video! Fun Fact: During WW1, the typical fighter airplane was made of a light wood frame, covered with about 200 square yards of linen. If a bullet passes through cotton canvas, it develops long tears, destroying the airplane, but a bullet through linen only makes a hole, and the airplane is safe, to be patched up at home.

@paulmoffat9306

5 жыл бұрын

Linen also lasts a lot longer than cotton in aircraft use. Cotton can start to fail in about 10-15 years, while some linen covered aircraft are still good, even 50 years later.

@nehalahari2029

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Gamboa our nj

@allkindofstupidstuff

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

4 жыл бұрын

you gotta bomb the village to save it!

@AtlasReburdened

4 жыл бұрын

Cool stuff, thanks yall.

I remember when I was young, feed sacks were called "tow sacks", which made me wonder why when I was old enough to learn that they were made from burlap. I learned by accident that short fiber linen is called "tow", and later learned that before burlap was available in Europe, linen was the only plant fiber available for making fabric. So it turned out that that the term "tow-sack" was an archaic term that was still in use in Southern Appalachia long after it was no longer the correct term to use.

@pennypiper7382

3 жыл бұрын

Tow headed . I understand now.☺️

@marialindell9874

2 жыл бұрын

Ruined 70 likes 😎

@josequins9099

2 жыл бұрын

@@pennypiper7382 omg, that's where the term tow-headed comes from! I knew it meant blonde, but not why. I was thinking as I watched the vid that the fibres looked like shiny, blonde hair.

@theelizabethan1

2 жыл бұрын

An example of Elizabethan English linguistic preservation in the Appalachian Mountains due to isolation of the people groups.

@selkywaters

2 жыл бұрын

Flaxen hair is also a term I've heard. I'm guessing it comes from the color of the plant fibers.

During my first summer in Seoul, which is incredibly hot and humid, I really learned to appreciate linen. My cotton shirts became really uncomfortable with sweat and linen held up to the day much better. I’m really looking to expand my wardrobe into linen now. It’s more expensive than cotton but so much more comfortable, especially when it’s humid.

@AlexanderMason1

Жыл бұрын

Your “cotton” shirts must have contained synthetic materials as well as pure cotton is one of the most comfortable to wear in the summer and the most breathable along with linen. Linen however is much more durable and much stronger than cotton so it lasts longer. You have different grades and types of cotton just like you have different ones for linen.

@pennyrobinson4266

Жыл бұрын

I have recently seen linen clothing at TJ Max and I find regularly at thrift stores.

@annep.1905

Жыл бұрын

JoAnn fabrics sells linen. You can make your own linen clothing. If you're really desperate, you can grow your own flax, ret it, scutch it, comb it, spin it (drop spindle is cheapest), weave it....

Interesting: "Linen is lint free" I noticed the factory air wasn't full of fiber, like in a cotton textile plant.

@angelinasamson6996

2 жыл бұрын

Linen last for years because it doesn’t lint up and break down

@thatonelad4594

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking of Lindor lol

@calliarcale

2 жыл бұрын

It's probably because of the long staple length. "Staple length" refers to how long the individual fibers are. For wool, it's somewhere between 4 and 6 inches usually, depending on breed/diet/shearing practices. For cotton, it's shorter, with 2 inches being common. But a linen staple stretches all the way from the head of the plant to its root ball. This makes for a very strong thread when these long fibers are spun together. Fun fact: the longest "staple" fiber is undoubtedly silk. The silkworm cocoon is one single fiber about a kilometer long.

@Alpha13Wolf

Жыл бұрын

@@calliarcale it very much is because of the length of the fibers and that are non-branching fibers.

@josephyearwood1179

Жыл бұрын

U BLOOMING FLAX PLANT

This is much different than how it was done in the early 1900's . My husband's German grandmother explained how they grew and harvested the flax then spun it into yarns. The final step was to bring it into town to be woven into fabric.

I was thirteen years old when the school teacher took the pupils to a small flax factory where we could watch how linen was made with tools that needed human hands to transform the plant into fibers. Linen, cotton and silk are my favorite fibers for clothing, I do not like synthetic fibers but actually the majority of clothes re made with polyester.

@Tinyvalkyrie410

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately cotton is horrifically bad for the environment. Way worse in a lot of ways compared to polyester. Linen and hemp are relatively good though

@marywallace4086

2 жыл бұрын

Neli, True!

@papwithanhatchet902

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget wool!

Someone noticed I've been watching Baumgartner Restorations, thanks KZread! Now I know why Julian uses Belgain Linen

@einundsiebenziger5488

3 жыл бұрын

... Belgian* linen*.*

@MaximilianonMars

2 жыл бұрын

@@einundsiebenziger5488 Brigaine Grinnen.

@feralbluee

2 жыл бұрын

oh , gee - i remember that. thanks for putting the two together. certainly makes a lot of sense. he’s really amazing, isn’t he? and he does such meticulous work and knows a number of crafts - like making those complicated steam tables. 🎨🖌🖼 🌷🌿🌼🌱🌷

As a handspinner, I find that flax fibre absolutely enchanting (it's on my list of fibres to try spinning). It's also fascinating to see that even with mechanization, it still takes many steps and many skilled hands to get from flax on the field to linen fabric before it even gets made into its final product.

As a historical sewer and lover of linen, your warehouse is the stuff of my wildest dreams.

Formerly Linnin was bleached by the sun. The cloth was stretched into tents on frames, giving surnames like Tenterfield. Others from the bleaching, Blanchard and Blabchfield. Ancient trades gave many family names.

Greeting from Ireland. Over 50 years ago, my late father and grandfather used to grow flax for linen. They did everything by hand. Those were such the days.

@ritaranee4787

5 жыл бұрын

almost like the jute plant

@rosariomitchcooney8813

5 жыл бұрын

Here in Cavan, in a corner of our field, there is ‘a flax hole’ where the flax was produced

@wobblybobbly9456

5 жыл бұрын

Same mine. Linen workers from the best of Belfast's linen in Randalstown, Antrim. Protty and Papists together, retting like only Northmen can.

@unokitsune

5 жыл бұрын

@@ritaranee4787 Flax is related to the Jute plant. The difference is that unlike Jute, Flax retains its strength moisture and flexibility while Jute just becomes course dry and sheddy

@bluewaterpines8323

4 жыл бұрын

It looks like all of us older generational farmers are here.be well.

It looks like golden hair 💜 I wasn't prepared for how beautiful it is.

I love wearing a linen shift under a wool gown. It's just a perfect combination. I can see why long blonde hair was described as "flaxen" in the past.

I bought my first set of washed Belgium linen sheets/duvet set about 12 years ago. They were very expensive. Understanding the process of how linen is made, really does justify the price, and once you sleep on quality linen sheets, there's just no going back. They are the best, and worth the money.

Absolutely loved this film. I am a spinner and weaver in New Zealand also a sheep farmer producing my own yarns from the wool produced by the sheep on my own farm. Have been doing a course thru City and Guilds , London and doing the topic Linen so have been learning about the old flax mills here in NZ producing fibre for Wordl War 2 aeroplanes. Will come back to Ireland again soon ( due 2019 June) and will ceratinly now visit. Wonderful film THANKYOU

@lj.3589

2 жыл бұрын

I adore the beautiful wool fabrics coming from New Zealand. I love linen too. I'm fascinated that you are a spinner and a weaver and have experience with wool and now with linen. How wonderful.

The people who engineer these machines are impeccable.

it looks like a blonde wig

@annwithaplan9766

5 жыл бұрын

I was going to say that too haha.

@Lyf4rMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Yep! Immediate thought after the scene :)

@marsboyo1995

4 жыл бұрын

Hence the term flaxen hair

@karashea7823

4 жыл бұрын

Mars Boyo ohhhhhhh! Right! Thanks😉

@AmyLou733

4 жыл бұрын

Makes sense then why blondes were once called tow-headed.

i would like to see how this process was done by hand hundreds of years ago. it should be enlightening.

@pabloricardodetarragon2649

6 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of videos in You Tube. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hnqpzJmsiLnUebg.html

@recklessroges

6 жыл бұрын

also kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2SHqLSCitTRlqg.html

@RingoWild

6 жыл бұрын

This video gives you a good idea how linen is made by hand. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hnqpzJmsiLnUebg.html

@ruthcole909

6 жыл бұрын

I watched a video from Ireland. About one half hour that covers the hand made process. I can't make a link for you but it should be easy to find.

@irmawatifebriani8459

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

It is really impressive to see the whole process of making linen Fabric. Most of us cannot appreciate the complexities of the sorting, fiber separating for size and consistency and color. Then comes the Weaving looms supplied by huge rolls of thread. The number of years it took to perfect the machines and the process from field harvest and then to the Mills is an engineering masterpiece. Thank you for this informative video and the intelligent and thoughtful comments that are on this channel.

me and my husband were linen weavers for 30 years and love to warp and weave it t/g in ireland

@bittujain594

4 жыл бұрын

Can you share your mail id

@payopedro1188

4 жыл бұрын

I visited Newport on the West Coast when visiting my ancestral family home. We were farmers from Roscommon, and had to leave due to dire economic conditions after World War 2. My only remaining Aunty, Maggie, she passed some ten years back, thus cutting our physical ties to our homeland. I also visited a birch basket weaving place, in a beautiful emerald valley, so magnificent Ireland. :)

@teestjulian

4 жыл бұрын

I love the feel of linen

@idrissayyed4125

4 жыл бұрын

@@teestjulian Mee tooo..

@akashkushwaha4414

4 жыл бұрын

Please sir joi me our compny i have complete deploma in textile

3:20 Now I know why they say flaxen haired.

@Losttoanyreason

6 жыл бұрын

LOL, That is exactly what I was thinking. That now I know exactly what that term really means after hearing it for 5 decades.

@marial.rapaglia4041

6 жыл бұрын

IT LOOKS LIKE PLANT HAIR WHICH IS BETTER FOR THE EARTHS ENVIRONMENT & CAN BE REGROWN WITHOUT CAUSING ENVIRONMENTAL WORLDWIDE DESTRUCTION & DAMAGE LIKE THE CURRENT USE OF FOSSIL FUELS CAN IN THE EXTRACTION PROCESS!!

@purplecleo

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the same exact thing!

@manga12

6 жыл бұрын

yes it does look like hair dont it, I bet right there you could make a blond wig out of it right there raw as it is, I knew it refered to blond hair but I thought it was more of a color thing, that actually looks like a bundle of long hair dont it.

@laraleepn

5 жыл бұрын

It's also the source of the hair description of tow-headed

I love linen. I have cloths, towels, sheets, pillow cases, etc all made of linen. Nice thing about it is the more you use it and wash it the softer it gets. I now have trouble sleeping on non-linen sheets.

@TinyTeaKettle

3 жыл бұрын

Just bought myself some linen pants and damn they are comfy. Especially now during the summer days.

@rebeccagutierrez1960

2 жыл бұрын

Same here.

Fun fact, this fabric was used for armour in the medieval/Renaissance era.

@robertharris6092

3 жыл бұрын

Linothorax and gambeson.

@FoundWanting970

3 жыл бұрын

Robert Harris Linothorax is thick leather but yeah you’re right.

@thetayterminator1436

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and was layered with Pig Fat yuck lol

@PaleRejent

3 жыл бұрын

Renaissance era? I thought ot was only ised during the medieval era

@kikihappy54

3 жыл бұрын

That makes sense! Even nowadays, we use fabrics for certain kinds of body armor (Kevlar, silk, etc). It’s all about how you layer the fabric, and how tight the weave is.

It's amazing, we are wearing dried plants. I really appreciate that. I thought cotton was an incredible fiber. This is great. Thank you for the video, it was very interesting and informative.

@samirmuradov9585

5 жыл бұрын

Im wearing a dried plant shirt for 100 dollars...damn

@ESSBrew

4 жыл бұрын

Dont forget about hemp!

@lube6966

4 жыл бұрын

*rotten plants

@Yohannai

4 жыл бұрын

@@lube6966 the rotting parts go away in the fields, all is left is the dried part that doesn't rot, so nope! Not rotten plants

@tim-youtubewatcher2726

4 жыл бұрын

I,D rather be wearing dried plants than wearing the plastic clothes that most people seem to wear these days. Heck I,ve even heard of clothes been made from recycled plastic bottles!

Im researching about linen, because today I bought my first pack of linen textut canvases to work on my art and from watching this I can wait to try to paint on it.

I worked as a mechanic in a flax spinning mills in Kincardineshire Scotland from 1969to 1997.

@froggydoodle808

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service!

Fascinating! Back in grade school we saw an animated short film of a mole who grew flax, processed it and made himself overalls -- this was by far more high tech and informative. I just never forgot that little mole! Flax and hemp besides wool got my vote hands down. Also looking into nettle fiber 😀

Looks like a great material for wigs! Seriously, that part with the wetting of the yarn made it look like Rapunzel's hair!

Lovely video and lovely fabric, “Strong as steel, delicate as silk and with an appearance as varied and attractive as an Irish landscape,” Wallace Clark

@danilbrat2149

5 жыл бұрын

Have you ever worn linen? :-))) Strong as straw, delicate as straw, but I agree, with an appearance of an Irish landscape. :-)))

So that's why I have "flaxen hair"

@msDanielp369

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@jamtea388

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking!

@hoilst

3 жыл бұрын

Or you're "tow-headed".

@virginiaoflaherty2983

3 жыл бұрын

And so you do!

@crystaledwards9878

3 жыл бұрын

And tow hair.

I used to work in Cone Mills, making denim in the world’s largest weaving room. This place is SO much cleaner than our weaving room was!!

Beautiful to sew and to wear. The good stuff does not wrinkle nearly as much as many people believe.

@cynthiamorton3583

2 жыл бұрын

My mother refers to the wrinkles in linen, cotton and silk as “honest” wrinkles. I’d rather wear wrinkled linen, cotton or silk than polyester, wrinkled or not. Alas, sometimes it’s hard to avoid polyester.

@marywallace4086

2 жыл бұрын

@@cynthiamorton3583 I have not bought anything polyester since I wore a blouse that burned me up, made me sweat like a sauna. I decided then it should be called "Sauna Fabric".

Yesterday I visited the texture museum in Kortrijk/ Belgum. There you can learn that the Belgum people were pioneer in producing and processing linen in eco frienly way. Kortrijk is beautiful and historic city were nice and helpful people live. It is worth visiting many times.

4:31 Warp beam? _"She canna take no more Cap'n!"_

Wow! Very educational! It's given me a whole new appreciation for the origin of the term, "flaxen-haired maiden."

In Mexico we've got several dress shops with fabulous garments made of linen. I am very keen on wearing it. Love it! ✨ Great documentary 👏🌟✨

I've seen this process done from start to finish the old fashioned way. Boy was that a lot of work. This is a lot easier on people. The one thing I did notice out in the fields that concerned me about the workers there was the lack of breathing mask protection for the machine operators. All that dust can't be good for their lungs.

@robertqueberg4612

5 жыл бұрын

Losttoanyreason , As a person who has lived on a farm for seventy years, I noticed that also, as the initial process is similar to making hay. The dust is not like abrasive dust from grinding steel that can cause silicosis. I spent lots of days making hay, and being in the mow, stacking the bales is probably a lot dustier than being out in the flax fields. The EU countries seem to look at things like that. As a retired toolmaker I noticed the lack of safety glasses and the presence of loose clothes and jewelry around the rapidly moving equipment and fabric. OUCH!!

@gateway8833

5 жыл бұрын

That looks like it would be so much fun, work like this is why I went in the military. Combat is a lot easier then chopping cotton or pulling tobacco.

@Denbig.

5 жыл бұрын

No human were killed in the making of this process.

@TMIDiva

5 жыл бұрын

Just EXACTLY my thoughts! I would venture that these agricultural workers would wear hats and face covers. The dried flax plants were launched by the thrashing machine in a way that could easily blind someone. Chaff can accumulate in the lungs like coal dust and cause COPD. Maybe they took all of this off for filming? Hope so! Also, we are constantly reminded how foreign exports have resulted in unemployment in "the Heartland". When you see the sophistication of automation that removes millions of tedious, repetitive man hours, you can either view this as a benefit or as a damaging aspect to the communities that faced joblessness after the introduction of labor saving machines. It's possible to hold two opinions..

@iamingrid6469

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Queberg 0

0:09 between France and Holland... so in other words, Belgium lol

3:27 I would have loved to see how the machines connect the thin pieces of flax together before the spinning process.

@morrisl7

4 жыл бұрын

trade secret

@froggydoodle808

4 жыл бұрын

That would be part of the combing process, to align the fibers. They seem to have skipped that part in their explanation. They didn't actually show or explain the spinning process either. Which sort of defeats the purpose of the video. But hey, we got to see lots of big machines!

It's nice to know about the eco-friendlyness of linen.

@loliciousfakurama2524

6 жыл бұрын

Henri de Feraudy Those machines aren't running on pexidust.

@paxmowa

5 жыл бұрын

@@loliciousfakurama2524 Cotton is also harvested by machines, then has to be shipped by container from middle and far east. Sheep for wool produce methane and consume lot's of food vs the amount of useable fibre. Synthetic fibres are made from petroleum products, which has to be won, transported, refined and chemically processed and shipped again before it can be converted into fibres. Linen really is the best fibre from an ecological standpoint, without question.

@isawondfl1

5 жыл бұрын

BUNK!

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if flax fixes nitrogen - or else how do they keep those fields fertile after uprooting the flax? Nope. Maybe they do crop rotation with pulses.

@capicuaaa

4 жыл бұрын

@@loliciousfakurama2524 Yes but linen doesn't require the pesticides and herbicides that conventional cotton does. Cotton farming is highly poisonous to both the environment, water shed and people involved in it. Many get cancer from it too. Cotton requires ridiculous amounts of water to grow. Flax has none of these devastating needs.

Flax is grown in Ireland too. My late father used to grow flax for linen many years ago. Long time ago.

This leaves a large window of time that the soil doesn't have a living root, but it's covered. I wonder how planting a mixed species covercrop to improve the soil health would affect their process. Flax is a highly extractive process that doesn't leave any biomass or ground cover to feed soil microbes or to protect the soil from topsoil erosion, compaction from tillage and solarization, or loss of water infiltration.

This is a great video! We've been trying to revitalize the local fibre economy by growing flax, but the biggest bottleneck is harvesting the flax. I would love a smaller version of this harvesting machine! That's so much better than roping volunteers into pulling by hand. Thanks for this!

Excellent video! I believe our American paper money is ¾ cotton and ¼ linen, but I don't know where they get their linen. Best of luck and it appears you have a very professional operation.

Flaxseed, what a wonderful crop!! You will have seeds for eating and replanting and the rest can be made into linen and clothing. Why are not more farmers growing this?

Thanks for that, I’ve seen the flax drying in the fields on walks around Caen and wondered what it was. Linen is beautiful to sleep on and to wear.

I once had a nice short-sleeved linen shirt. Linen is not a popular fabric here in the southwestern U.S. However, I really liked that shirt, the fabric was still course but it was very cooling and breathable to wear in the extremely hot Phoenix weather. I always look for linen shirts here but they are hard to find. Very smart looking fabric.

How utterly fascinating. This is the first time I've learnt about the entire process of producing a fibre.

Peace and blessings. The making of linen out of flax seeds i that in itself is remarkable. But what I find more remarkable is who and how someone came up with the ideas to make the vehicles to carry out the various jobs needed for this process. Awsome video. Thanks.1/4/18

@wallykaluska1462

5 жыл бұрын

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@veralenora4033

4 жыл бұрын

The Jacquard Loom was the first use of "punch cards" to automate an industry. The punch cards were not used with the complex computer electronics we have today, even if you're old enough to remember bills that came on punch cards in the 1960's (such as electrical bills, which were marked "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate"). If you've ever seen a very old "player piano", that was the process used for automating the loom. Once people saw what was possible, the use of automation exploded. Then you ended up with the classic riots of laborers out of work. Sabotage is from the word "sabot", wooden shoes, which were thrown at the owners and others who profited. Up to the time of the J. Loom, people could make a living hand weaving at home full time, or part time when other work slacked off. Weaving was one of the major "cottage industries", then eliminated by automation. Hand weaving was also damned hard work however and after a lifetime often left people crippled. Of course, automation also made fabrics much cheaper to buy and improved quality tremendously which is why automation is so attractive in every human endeavor. Retired librarian, U.S.

@katherinkeegan8601

2 жыл бұрын

@@veralenora4033 Thank you for your work with the library system.

@calliarcale

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually made from the stems, not the seeds, and the stems become more coarse when the plant goes to seed so if they make linen, there will not be any seeds. (They can make fiber out of the stems if harvesting for seed, but it'll be useful only for cordage.)

Living in the southern United States with its subtropical summers of high heat and humidity, I find both flax and cotton to be a godsend. Flax is the more expensive option, but it is amazing how much cooler I feel when wearing it - even more so than cotton fabrics.

I just remembered that I made a seat cover for my worn-out office chair from linen. As that was worn through I made another. It lasts about 3-4 years. Great cloth. I'm sitting on it now.

I had one linen garment. It was spectacular to wear and comfortably cool. Felt wonderful to wear. Truly different sensation than most fabrics.

This was an eye-opener. I had no idea it would take so many steps to get to the final product.

Luv the Feel and Comfort of Linen...Wowww... Didn't know this came from a plant. and how Carefully and dedication it's given to it.... LUV IT!!

Linen was used for ages the same as fabric made from hemp. Time to go back to natural stuff which is safer for consumers and environment. Great video!

3:05 I finally understand the idea behind the song "The Maid with the Flaxen Hair".

Beautiful! SOOOO much more environmentally-friendly than dirty cotton. Linen requires little to no pesticides and much, much less water than conventional cotton. On top of that, it is so durable and had the most beautiful rustic look and feel. I love linen.

Very fascinating documentary. I sleep in old linen sheets. I wear it too. Alongside cotton, it's one of the most marvellous fabrics. It took pure genius, however, to tame it to this degree. Thank you so much for posting.

Ah yes, this brings me great memories from RuneScape. You travelled all the way from Lumby to the humble flax fields of Camelot. There you would spend your days in the fields, picking up 1 flax at a time with the hope of someday getting rich. Then there was the weaving house in Seer's village, north of the church. There you would find the spinning wheel on the 2nd floor, spinning for bowstrings. After a long hard day you would return to the bank, depositing all that flax and/or bowstrings and heading down to the nearby bar to meet up with all the other flax workers and to hear many tales of the random event encounters they had faced during the day. Much time has passed. Now we have technology and not many are seen in the flax fields these days, that it almost brings a tear to my eye. -Hokuspokus

Now I like linen more after watching this. I have some flax plants in my garden, and their blue flowers that sway in the wind is really beautiful and graceful.

@josephyearwood1179

Жыл бұрын

You beautiful simple organic portal you x

Linen clothing is perfect for summer, i keeps you nice and dry.

@nakkerannakl1627

4 жыл бұрын

YamiKisara texica solutions says is it!

*I never knew linen fabric was made out of flax plant* thanks for this educational video 😀👌

When I went to school, the material was not left on the land for the rutte (Dutch / Flemish "rotten") process, but soaked in rivers and canals that went through the flax fields.

6:15 *when the boss has just stepped out of the factory for lunch*

This is fantabulous! I didn't get how the short fibres were joined to make those long yarns though. Can somebody explain?

@katherinkeegan8601

2 жыл бұрын

They left that part out.

It's amazing that all this comes from a little seed, soil and water with sunshine added

I would love to know how they repair the fabric!

@rebeccagutierrez1960

2 жыл бұрын

Linen is so durable.

After watching this video,l now value an ankle length wide dress I purchased in Capri,Italy. I wear it to work in the garden, after a was and press can wear it to a Gala event or dine on a cruise. Love it.

Wow! That was fascinating. Now if I may share my story. I have a trunk full of handmade linen!! My mother made it in Italy. We brought to Canada in 1968 and it’s been sitting in the trunk ever since. Sheets, towels, dish towels... rolls and stacks of it. And she spent countless hours planting, harvesting, processing, spinning and turning into cloth. ALL by hand. No machinery then. Would tell me stories of how she spun for hours. Her arms ready to fall off. Fingers exhausted. Unbelievable actually. My question is what am I to do with all of this??? I want to honour her and her hard work but don’t know how. Any ideas? Who would be interested in it? Who should I contact? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

@froggydoodle808

4 жыл бұрын

I think, after all this time, she would just want it to be used somehow by somebody who would benefit from her hard work.

@ZZMJo

4 жыл бұрын

Use them! Every single day. or donate them to whom you love, knew your mother and appreciate her work. I have a lot of stuff my mother gave and still gives me and she still doen't believe that I use it or keep it, only because she gave it to me.

@MaryLou84

3 жыл бұрын

Maria Bauer maybe you should use and enjoy all those things, because life needs to be lived in the best way possible, and she put all her heart into them. Don’t let them be forgotten in that trunk.

@orlandoangel

Жыл бұрын

These sound like museum pieces. Contact every textile museum in the world especially italy

is hayati tissue made of linen?

To the first people who figured out how to make flax into linen, I salute you.

Hard to imagine all that goes into this. The first batch looks so beautiful.

Sooooo gorgeous when it was shiny. 😍😍😍

I would like to see clothes made from linen.

@catherinegrantham4423

6 жыл бұрын

susan olson I used to be a linen Weaver many years ago now, these machines very like them, but fast and more advanced now

@stephss

6 жыл бұрын

susan olson There is...

@oldfashiondragon

6 жыл бұрын

susan olson i use linen for embroidery

@indianne9781

6 жыл бұрын

I recently bought linen duvet cover from Ikea of all places. It's gorgeous, simple and will probably last almost forever.

@Ericat257

6 жыл бұрын

theyre not hard to find....

I have an even bigger appreciation for linen now! Wonderful video!!!

The Industrial revolution brought all these advance to textile production. It's mind boggling. Such wisdom!

I dabble in bookbinding. Pure linen thread is often used traditionally to sew the signatures (folded paper sections) together. You have to buy the thread from specialty shops at a premium because you just cant find it anywhere. It blows my mind to see such quantities of thread. I'd love to get my hands on just one roll of it lol. Even the fabric is almost non existent here in the U.S. I was lucky to find one bolt of fabric at our local fabric store, even the clerk didn't know it was there. It's a shame that factories like this a so removed from customers that would love to buy their products, it would be nice if you could order directly, of course they wouldn't want to get involved in such small peice meal work

That's just plain old good work. Product and presentation. -Bob Forrester Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2:17 A friend drew up my family tree as a wedding present and several of my ancestors were listed a Hackle Pin Grinders in Hathersage, Derbyshire. It took quite a while to find out what that meant. Now I’ve seen the result their skills would have gone to help produce...

Now this is the kind of content I want to see at 2 AM.

FLAX IS AWESOME! I love how it's made into linen and no waste!

This is fantastic . Why do people still want to wear animal fibers . Linen is by far the best . It is warm in winter , cool in summer, it lasts for decades , and no animals are mistreated in the process . Everything made of fabric in my house is made from Linen.

@corettaha7855

6 жыл бұрын

Morgan Olfursson animal products are important to most oppressed traditional cultures that Europe continually tries to wage genocides against.

@joanneapperson992

6 жыл бұрын

Morgan Olfursson ii

@robertqueberg4612

5 жыл бұрын

Morgan Olfursson I doubt that you could afford to wear linen socks and underwear in the cold of winter. This is where wool is a better fiber choice. I am going to make a guess that being a plant fiber like cotton, it does absorb moisture(sweat/rain) unless treated by a chemical process. If linen was the best for every purpose, I would imagine that it would be used for every purpose.

@slappy8941

5 жыл бұрын

I'm going to buy another cashmere sweater and wool socks just because you wrote that. And a new pair each of leather boots and gloves. Maybe a new leather jacket too.

@circleofsorrow4583

5 жыл бұрын

@@slappy8941 I have a beautiful leather jacket that I have had for years. If you take care of the leather, it lasts for a very long time.

2:34 it's looks like me brushing my hair when it air dries

I’ve been considering linen as the upholstery choice for upcoming furniture purchases. This settles it - I’m getting linen for sure.

excelent, lininen is much more reliable than cotton, you take more from plat to make thread, process itself is much simplier and more friendly to nature. I love linen. You can make most thin and thik thread from linen. And you can grow plants in europe :-)

Absolutely love linen! Wish there were more accessible items in America.

Don't forget the seed is a super food, and the oil from it makes the highest quality paints and also can be dried to a state to make linoleum, and boiled linseed protects wood from weather. It very well may be the single most important plant in existence. I know that can be said about a lot of other plants like barley, but still, emphasis on "single most."

I think I understand now why linen suits are so treasured.

I love linen and enjoy spinning it! ❤️

@nikhilsukumar23

6 жыл бұрын

Patricia Graefe, aka, Nonie that's great. May we know how you spin it? Do you manufacture linen?

@laraleepn

5 жыл бұрын

I've also spun linen on a spinning wheel. It's a different technique than spinning the shorter sheep fibers for sure.

@rkaiser7767

5 жыл бұрын

I also enjoy spinning. Luckily have unlimited supply of Alpaca wool. Learnt to spin flax, but have no supply of it here in Australia, only wool and Alpaca wool. Beautiful craft spinning.

Love to watch this process over & over. Truly gossamer fibers at the final combing and for centuries the resilient fiber of choice.

The best videography for a “How it’s Made” episode. These guys were probably making Fast and Furious films before long.

I made a shroud from linen. Best winter wear garment ever!

@jackweems2282

5 жыл бұрын

Gives me a rash. And makes me itch.

@pimenel

5 жыл бұрын

@@jackweems2282 I get that with unwashed, new cotton clothing. 3 or 4 washes in and I'm comfortable with it.

Wait a minute. Is lien only flax? I thought lien is a broad term for cloth or sheets?

@LibecoLagae

6 жыл бұрын

A large portion of sheets used in the household were originally made of linen, hence why the term has become generic. But the 'linen' fabric is made of flax.

@0623kaboom

6 жыл бұрын

just like scotch tape .... properly known as cellotape but name branding has the term of scotch tape as the generic version now ...

@maxdecphoenix

6 жыл бұрын

The word linen (as well as an entire array of words line, lignen, ligament, linoleum, and others) are derived from ancient Germanic 'lin'. refereeing to the Lin tree in general, and in particular the custom of preparing and harvesting of what is known as 'bast' (sap wood fibre) for making thread which was then worked into cordage, rope, and cloth. Cloth which likely evolved into tapestries, And later with written language, evolved into bast parchment. I would imagine bast from Lin trees (also known as lime in Anglican sphere) served Germanic tribes for several thousand years as their primary cultural 'tree of life', as they likely didn't have the climate to support or access to grasses like hemp from marijuana as the Romans did, nor flax from fertile crescent. But that's speculation on my part. All I know is linen was a ubiquitous term through Germanic tribes, and our the last centuries had become ubiquitous in the English world for an entire class of textiles, and root word. I'm not certain on the specifics, but I believe mature Lin trees were felled by some means, then submerged in rivers or ponds. The anaerobic conditions excluded terrestrial, aerobic microbes which would have consumed the actual fibers, the aquatic microbes just attacked the softer binder/glue which facilitated mechanical separation of the annual layers. Basically, they'd just beat the trunk with sticks and peel off the fibers in strips.

@hiramabifffromsirius146

6 жыл бұрын

In early America they were instructed to grow a handful of hemp seeds so if nothing else they would at least have fresh linen.

@maxdecphoenix

6 жыл бұрын

Hiram Abiff From Sirius that's plausible, however native Americans had their own fiber plants. In the tropical regions of south and central America it was primarily sisal. In the arid parts of now Mexico up to Arizona et al they used yucca. In the Pacific north west they used bast fiber off western red cedar. I am unsure of a regional particularity for the eastern coast tribes of the Mississippians, but I'm sure they had something. I live in Mississippi now and I have some yucca filamentosas that my mother planted about 25 years ago. I've experimented with extracting fiber from it and it is quite a giving plant. My preferred method is to just submerge the leaves for a month or so in late summer in warmish water and all the fleshy material and chemical binders anaerobically decompose into a PUTRID, stinking pulp-like goop which washes free of the fibers with no effort. Produced pristine fibers that were shiny and resembled synthetic doll hair. They stunk like a rotting corpse for several weeks, but eventually took on the same sweeter, earthy hay smell of the leaves I 'dew rhetted'. The sisal cultivation in central America was quite evolved as I understand. Some of the plants were returned to Europe, which eventually were settled in India which was thought to have a similar climate and cultivation began there on an industrially scale. India remains the world's largest producer and exporter of sisal.

future of fabrics and a great boon to humanity

Also linen bedding is wondrous. Cool in summer heat 🌡️Warm in winter

I bought my first linen sheets a year ago and it was instant addiction! I like this film for its topic, music and narration. I have watched it several times.