Linen cloth, such as this Black Lightweight Linen, was woven of flax fiber in many grades and weaves. Used in every aspect of living, from clothing, to household needs, to furnishings, to the shroud made for the corpse, linen was so common that a tax was proposed as a source of easy revenue on the coarser sorts being imported into the US towards the end of the 18th century.

• Our Black Lightweight Linen is .
• Suitable for  women’s gowns, summer jackets, aprons, accessories and petticoats; men’s summer jackets, linings and waistcoats and children’s garments.
  

• 100% Linen, 60 inches wide.