{"id":5509,"date":"2022-05-05T19:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/bcstg\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2022-05-05T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:11:36","slug":"linen-production-methods-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/linen-production-methods-and-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Linen &#8211; Production Methods And History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Linen &#8211; Production Methods And History<\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Linen &#8211; Production Methods And History<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Linen Production occurs in nearly all regions of the world. Linen is made from the fibers of the Flax plant.&nbsp; Flax has been cultivated in almost every region around the world since known Archaeological history.&nbsp; There is deep recorded history that Flax has been used to produce Linen yarns and fabrics&nbsp; going back over 6,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linen yarns are made from the fibers encased in the stalks of the Flax plant.&nbsp; This is the modern day sequence of linen production from start to finish which is accomplished primarily with modern machinery:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Seeds are planted in late spring<\/li><li>The plants reach full maturity (+\/- 3&#8242; tall) in about 90 days<\/li><li>Plants typically require zero pesticides and fertilizer throughout the growing season<\/li><li>The plants are cut or pulled from the ground<\/li><li>Once cut, the stalks are soaked in water in a process called &#8220;retting&#8221; which softens the stalks in preparation for the process of removing them to expose the fibers<\/li><li>The waste from the process to remove the fibers from the stalks are used to manufacture animal bedding and other products<\/li><li>Stalks are dried and then gathered into bales for transport to the next step of processing<\/li><li>The fibers are lengthened and stripped of stalk debris though a process of &#8220;combing&#8221;<\/li><li>Yarns are spun from the fibers into continuous lengths suitable for weaving<\/li><li>Some yarns are dyed with natural dyes to produced color patterns in the weaving process&nbsp;<\/li><li>Fabric is woven from the natural yarn&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linen production occurs in nearly all regions of the world&#8230; There is deep recorded history that Flax has been used to produce Linen yarns and fabrics\u00a0 going back over 6,000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"normal","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[604],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BC-Content-Linen-Production-scaled-1024x793.jpg",1024,793,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Fiona","author_link":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/author\/r-covington\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":592,"name":"LInen Production","slug":"linen-production","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":592,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Methods of producing linen.","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":592,"category_count":1,"category_description":"Methods of producing linen.","cat_name":"LInen Production","category_nicename":"linen-production","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":604,"name":"linen production methods","slug":"linen-production-methods","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":604,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":592,"label":"LInen Production"}],"post_tag":[{"value":604,"label":"linen production methods"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5510,"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/5510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byrnes-crate.com\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}