Linen cloth, such as this Cherry Red Medium Weight 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 Cherry Red Medium Weight Linen is
• Suitable for women’s gowns, jackets, aprons, accessories and petticoats; men’s  jackets, linings and waistcoats and children’s garments.
  

• 100% Polish Linen, 60 inches wide.