I've been told two different but related things on this: either
the varieties of flax plants as now grown don't produce such fine
fibers or that the processing as now done doesn't allow for serfs to
hand-sort the fibers to gather all the finest ones up for the
spinning and weaving of such ultra-fine fabric.
It may be that you have to be growing an awful lot of linen to
accumulate enough of the finest fibers, too.
Lauren
On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Caryn Sobel wrote:
<It's the *fineness* of
the linen threads used then, that can't be duplicated now. In linen.>
Please pardon my ignorance, but why can't we have the same fineness
now? Is it a difference in the spinning techniques, or the variety
of the plant itself? Or a lack of demand for finer thread?
Thanks!
Caryn
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