Treasure it Noelene. Today's linen thread will never be as smooth and strong as this. I do not know the Bull Brand linen but I recently acquired some 'Square Sail' linen 60/2 and am using it at the moment for a torchon runner. I wound it from the wooden reel into a hank and washed it first and it did not shrink one iota. I don't know when they stopped harvesting and processing flax into linen by hand and started using machines but the old linen is spun with lo-o-ong fibres which makes it so smooth and strong, whereas todays flax is chopped up by the machines so can never be as smoothly spun.
On 2013/11/26 12:33 PM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: I have just acquired from a deceased estate a quantity of reels of Bull brand Irish Linen, 100/2 - Brenda's book says it is 33 WPC. I gather it is no longer available, a Google search did not turn up any "hits". It is a very smooth thread, no slubs, compared to the 100/2 Fresia I have been using for Christmas decorations. Warm greetings from Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place in South Africa - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
