On May 20, 2007, at 14:23, bevw wrote:
I'm going to make a guess that 'cotton lawn' the fabric name, is
coined
from fabric finishing,
According to most dictionaries, the origin of the word "lawn" as
applied to fabric comes from the French town Laon :)
Also, while my "family in the village" in Poland whitened linen
(sheets, tablecloths, dish towels) out in the sun, they always did that
by draping the things over bushes, never spreading them on the grass on
the ground, because stains from cut grass are hard to remove, while
leaves of shrubs don't stain.
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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