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Linen is one of the most primitive products of early civilizations. When man was in his ancient state, wild animals were trapped in the hunt and clothes were made up of their skins. Later, nomadic communities formed, who took their herds of cattle across the plains of Eastern Europe during the great migrations. The wool obtained from the flocks of sheep was used in making warm clothes.
After a long period, man settled down, built himself cities and cultivated the land. Among the products of the soil was flax; out of the fibre of flax, linen was made. Linen is the earliest fabric to be woven.
With the beginnings of the machine age, a steady decline in the culture of linen weaving was found in Europe. Handcraftsmanship, which is just what flax most demands, became highly expensive. Rapid development of the cotton and synthetic industries pushed flax out of sight and out of mind. Its merits were forgotten and, in the end, pure linen became the hardest thing to find.
In olden days, in almost every country, each family grew flax and wove linen for its own use. The earliest records of a linen industry are 4,000 years old from Egypt. The researches in Egypt have resulted in many discoveries about linen. It is a matter of historical truth that when the tomb of Tutankhamen was opened, the linen curtains were found intact, whereas all other fabrics deteriorated into dust.
It is a historical fact that flax was grown in Egypt as early as the 4th millennium BC. Art works from that time depict the development from the harvesting of linen. Linen bandages were used to anoint the mummies. The garments of the people, especially the vestures of the priests, were knitted from linen yarn. Linen was considered as a symbol of cleanliness and purity. Throughout the Old Testament, linen is mentioned frequently.
Historically, the industry has contributed to the development of the local economy and enabled people to acquire business skills and other industrial development. Linen has also influenced the mechanism of land tenure and the basic demographic structure of various places.
The history of linen also allowed us to get familiar with the development of craft, industrialisation and the technological developments of today. The history of the production of linen includes traditional methods such as the cultivation and harvesting of flax, brown linen, bleached linen, spinning, weaving and many others. Linen was used in parachutes during the World Wars. It was used in aeroplanes, household products, fashion and in the invention of Lycra. The production of linen has also changed from time to time.
The qualities of fabrics, other than linen, have strongly gone through the use of textile chemicals during the final upgrading and finishing processes. The customer, who in the end buys the fabric, gets to feel very close to the skin. Linen of olden time and even of today is very different. A mechanical-thermal process is sufficient in order to attain a luxuriant, soft feeling to the material.
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