At 07:35 AM 8/19/2005, you wrote:
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A question - should linen rip in the same way that you can rip
cotton from selvedge to selvedge/along the grain? If it should, does
the fact that some linen doesn't indicate that it isn't qood quality linen?
Yours in curiousity,
Joannah in Brisbane, Australia
When I cut linen, I draw a thread out and cut along the space. I
must admit that I have not tried to tear linen since linen is much
stronger than cotton. Given than the flax fibers in good linen are
rather long (several inches) and strong, I wouldn't want to try to
tear the actual fibers; cotton fibers are very short (long-staple
cotton is only 1-1/2 to 2 inches) and when you tear cotton cloth, you
actually pull the fibers apart rather than rip them.
Joan Jurancich
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