Linon (fabric)

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Linon refers to a cotton fabric used for bed linen. It was almost completely displaced by modern light bed linen.

Linon is a bleached and calendered cotton fabric based on Kretonne or Renforcé with a non-washable filling finish with a silk-like sheen.

Linons

Schedel's lexicon of goods from 1814 lists under Linons :

Linons , English Lawns , a kind of white, fine, clear and thin flax canvas , which is made here and there in France, especially in the provinces of Hainault , Cambresi , Artois and Picardy , and which is used in extraordinary quantities far and wide. The places where this article is most frequently and of excellent quality are Arras , Valenciennes , Combray Vervins , Bapaume , St. Quentin , Royon , Peronne, and a few others. [...] "

Apart from the fact that this fabric is not a cotton but a flax fabric, it was also used differently. It was specified: flowered, latticed and striped or openwork linons for scarves as well as men's and women's cuffs and aprons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfons Hofer: Textile and Model Lexicon . 7th edition, Volume 2, Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, keyword “Linon”. ISBN 3-87150-518-8 .
  2. ^ Johann Heinrich Moritz Poppe: Johann Christian Schedels new and complete, general wares encyclopedia [...] . First part A to L. Fourth thoroughly improved edition, Verlag Carl Ludwig Brede, Offenbach am Mayn 1814. pp. 613–614.