How Linen Is Made

Ever wondered where linen comes from? From which plant linen cloth is made? How linen is produced?

In this video you will learn more about Belgian Linen and how it's made.

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[YamiKisara]

Linen is THE best fabric for summer clothes! It breaths, it dries extremely fast, it's light, yet protects from the sun. It's incredibly versatile, too!

[TheFiown]

As someone who has worked with fabrics all her life I can say that linen is by far the best cloth to work with, it takes on so many aspects, rough or silky and is the perfect all year round fabric to wear.

[yetanotherjohn]

Great video! Fun Fact: During WW1, the typical fighter airplane was made of a light wood frame, covered with about 200 square yards of linen. If a bullet passes through cotton canvas, it develops long tears, destroying the airplane, but a bullet through linen only makes a hole, and the airplane is safe, to be patched up at home.

[vitalchance]

The people who engineer these machines are impeccable.

[maryanneslater]

Linen is so durable that in the middle ages and up to nearly the present, people itemized household linens, shirts and even underwear in their wills.

[fasx]

It is really impressive to see the whole process of making linen Fabric. Most of us cannot appreciate the complexities of the sorting, fiber separating for size and consistency and color. Then comes the Weaving looms supplied by huge rolls of thread. The number of years it took to perfect the machines and the process from field harvest and then to the Mills is an engineering masterpiece. Thank you for this informative video and the intelligent and thoughtful comments that are on this channel.

[ginalou]

I finally understand the expression “flaxen hair”! Thank you

[neenajaydon]

As a handspinner, I find that flax fibre absolutely enchanting (it's on my list of fibres to try spinning). It's also fascinating to see that even with mechanization, it still takes many steps and many skilled hands to get from flax on the field to linen fabric before it even gets made into its final product.

[jztouch]

During my first summer in Seoul, which is incredibly hot and humid, I really learned to appreciate linen. My cotton shirts became really uncomfortable with sweat and linen held up to the day much better. I’m really looking to expand my wardrobe into linen now. It’s more expensive than cotton but so much more comfortable, especially when it’s humid.

[beverlyforrester]

Absolutely loved this film. I am a spinner and weaver in New Zealand also a sheep farmer producing my own yarns from the wool produced by the sheep on my own farm. Have been doing a course thru City and Guilds, London and doing the topic Linen so have been learning about the old flax mills here in NZ producing fibre for Wordl War 2 aeroplanes. Will come back to Ireland again soon ( due 2019 June) and will ceratinly now visit. Wonderful film THANKYOU

[marynewport]

me and my husband were linen weavers for 30 years and love to warp and weave it t/g
in ireland

[pinklady]

Greeting from Ireland. Over 50 years ago, my late father and grandfather used to grow flax for linen. They did everything by hand. Those were such the days.

[TinyDancerO]

I bought my first set of washed Belgium linen sheets/duvet set about 12 years ago. They were very expensive. Understanding the process of how linen is made, really does justify the price, and once you sleep on quality linen sheets, there's just no going back. They are the best, and worth the money.

[WobblesandBean]

It looks like golden hair 💜 I wasn't prepared for how beautiful it is.

[emilycreager]

Looks like a great material for wigs! Seriously, that part with the wetting of the yarn made it look like Rapunzel's hair!

[slappy]

I remember when I was young, feed sacks were called "tow sacks", which made me wonder why when I was old enough to learn that they were made from burlap. I learned by accident that short fiber linen is called "tow", and later learned that before burlap was available in Europe, linen was the only plant fiber available for making fabric. So it turned out that that the term "tow-sack" was an archaic term that was still in use in Southern Appalachia long after it was no longer the correct term to use.

[IvoryS]

It's amazing, we are wearing dried plants. I really appreciate that. I thought cotton was an incredible fiber. This is great. Thank you for the video, it was very interesting and informative.

[systlin]

As a historical sewer and lover of linen, your warehouse is the stuff of my wildest dreams.

[roberttaylory]

I worked as a mechanic in a flax spinning mills in Kincardineshire Scotland from 1969to 1997.

[hensonlaura]

Interesting: "Linen is lint free" I noticed the factory air wasn't full of fiber, like in a cotton textile plant.