Thank you, Alix. I have no factual knowledge to quote, but I know, as a spinner, that no machine could produce those exceptionally fine linen threads. I have some old 1000/2 linen that is almost invisible. I have read that one of the strains of flax that produced the finer fibers is not longer available. the result of several poor growing years that depleted the seed supply. Sounds possible. Once, long ago, I purchased some linen line to spin and I did. ;-))) It would have made nice binder twine ! BarbE USA ----- Original Message ----- From: Famill Hengen To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Flax
In fact, to produce fine linnen-thread, the production was all hand-made. Beginning with hand-chosen seed from the biggest plants, sow broadcast, and so on. I was told all machines to work fiber are too strong to handle this flax and we all understand that nobody will hand-spinn flax as this is harsh to the skin of the hands, traditionally the spinning was worked in cellars with high humidity and very little light, so the conditions for work not health-improving, the pay one of the lowest imaginable. Now a second problem for the linnen threads is that the chinese buy a lot of it in europe, I know a firm in Italy who made a very fine fabric in linnen, he had to stop the production as he could no longer find the flax he needed because all had be sold to China. This has happened some years ago and the quality of the linnen threads was that moment very low too. Alix from Luxembourg. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
