Linen industry
The linen industry processes the plant flax (also called flax ) to make yarn and linen fabric .
history
Linen as a textile material has been known for 5,000 years. Egyptians and Romans had textiles made of linen.
In the Middle Ages there was linen production in Swabia , Silesia and Alsace . The Fugger from Augsburg were u. a. rich in the linen trade . The linen industry had set up its own council, whose councilors were called linen councils .
The linen industry was very important in Ireland in the 19th century . Irish emigrants brought the flax with them to America . There - and later in Europe - from 1850 cotton harvested by black slaves from the southern states replaced linen. The flax processing was comparatively labor-intensive. Due to the inhomogeneity of the flax fibers, which are much longer than cotton , the mechanization of the spinning process for flax only succeeded half a century later than for cotton.
Today the raw material for linen comes mainly from Russia , Poland , the Czech Republic , France and Belgium .
In Switzerland, flax fiber has been grown again in the Emmental since 2010 .
Museums
- In Lisburn , Northern Ireland , there is a since 2001 Linen Museum .
- The Active Museum Henni Jaensch-Zeymer - hand weaving mill in Geltow shows the processing of the fibers into woven fabrics on historical looms and also produces. Active here means a producing museum.
- Wendlandhof Rundling Museum in Lübeln with exhibitions on flax cultivation and the rural linen trade
literature
- Erich Hornung: Development and decline of the Hanoverian canvas industry , 1905
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Henni Jaensch Zeymer" hand weaving mill. Active Museum Ulla Schünemann
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jasmine Baumann: Flax has potential. In: bauernzeitung.ch. May 4, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .
- ^ Hand weaving mill, Geltow / near Potsdam
