Dirty Linen?
Volume 1 - Issue 5
Ashok Athalye*
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- Department of Colours Business, General Manager and Technical Service, Maharashtra, India
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Ashok Athalye, Department of Colours Business, General Manager and Technical Service, Maharashtra, India
Received: April 05,2018; Published: April 10, 2018
DOI: 10.32474/LTTFD.2018.01.000124
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Abstract
Linen used to be the most widely used textile material for
apparel clothing for ages during the primordial era. Additionally,
owing to its strength, durability and long lasting property, the
ancient Egyptians were considered to use it even as a currency.
Thus, Linen was an intrinsic and intimate component of human
life and it was valued so much that cleaning of household cloths
in public place probably led to the popular colloquial term of
washing dirty Linen (personal matters that could be embarrassing
if made public). Linen which ruled the northern hemisphere garb
for thousands of years lost its importance in the last few centuries
as another natural fiber “Cotton” also initially marketed as white
gold gained prominence during British colonization in Asia and
the advent of industrialization. Availability of vast land mass for
cultivation of cotton in Indian subcontinent, claimant tropical
weather conditions, cheap labor, ease of downstream processing,
etc boosted popularity of cotton and it became the most popular
textile substrate around the globe within a short time. Linen, which
enjoyed a lion’s share among the natural farm-cultivated textile
substrates until the 17th century, lost its mare and reduced to hardly
1 % of total textile fiber consumption by mid 19th century. However,
last few decades have witnessed revival of Linen and usage of this
long and thick fiber in apparel and home furnishing segment.
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