Sewing Implements

[Lepidina]

I've asked some other spindlers about spinning flax and most have only dabbled with it and not done much beyond that. But they have gotten some very fine thread from drop spindling flax, about the weight of sewing thread.<br>
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I also went back through my info on Egyptian cloth and they had very fine linen long before the Romans were around. So I don't see any reason why the Romans wouldn't also have had finer cloth than the more burlap stuff that has survived.<br>
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Also on the flax thread, one lady mentioned that she had to wash her thread after she spun it or else it was almost too stiff to work with. It takes a lot more processing to get linen nice and soft so a lot of the weaving thread hasn't been processed all the way since it's assumed that you'll be doing it after you finish weaving. So Rich, that might have been why the linen you worked with was stiff. Personally, as much as I like the fabric, it seems like a huge pain to get it from plant to stolla.<br>
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I think I'm going to just stick with wool and be a peasant.<br>
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deb <p></p><i></i>