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Internet Colors - Set of 1035
Linen Color 540 - #FAF0E6
Linum usitatissimum
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is
labor-intensive to manufacture, but when it is made into garments, it is valued
for its exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather.
The collective term "linens" is still often used generically to describe a
class of woven and even knitted bed, bath, table and kitchen textiles. The name
linens is retained because traditionally, linen was used for many of these
items. In the past, the word "linens" was also used to mean lightweight
undergarments such as shirts, chemises, waist shirts, lingerie (a word also
cognate with linen), and detachable shirt collars and cuffs, which were
historically made almost exclusively out of linen
Linen textiles appear to be some of the oldest in the world: their history goes
back many thousands of years. Fragments of straw, seeds, fibers, yarns, and
various types of fabrics which date back to about 8000 BC have been found in
Swiss lake dwellings.
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