About Linen News
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is laborious to manufacture, but the fiber is very absorbent and garments made of linen are valued for their exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather. Linen fabric feels cool to the touch, a phenomenon which indicates its higher conductivity — the same principle that makes metals feel cold to the touch. It is smooth, making the finished fabric lint-free, and it gets softer the more it is washed. However, constant creasing in the same place in sharp folds will tend to break the linen threads, and linen has poor elasticity and does not spring back readily, which explains why it wrinkles so easily.
Linen news follows a fiber with a clear seasonal rhythm: warm-weather clothing stories in spring and summer, and fiber, fabric and home textile stories through the year. This page gathers the live linen headline searches with the textile routes on Apparel Search, so the fiber’s news can be read alongside the wider textile picture.
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Reading Linen News
This page is the linen front door of the Apparel Search news directory. The full set of news categories is laid out in the mosaic at the top of the page — audience categories such as women’s, men’s and children’s news, subject categories such as bridal, celebrity and fashion week news, and the fiber and textile categories — so any other segment of fashion news is one tile away, and the Fashion News Directory covers news by company as well as by category.
Readers use a category page like this one in two ways: to catch up, by running the live headline searches for linen news, and to go deeper, by following the publications that cover the segment week in and week out. Trade readers — buyers, sellers and makers working with linen products — and fashion readers following the subject for its own sake meet on the same page, which is why the list mixes headline searches with standing publications.
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Common Questions
What is linen made from?
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. It is laborious to manufacture, but very absorbent, and linen garments are valued for their exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather.
Why does linen wrinkle so easily?
Linen has poor elasticity and does not spring back readily. Constant creasing in the same place in sharp folds can also break the linen threads, showing as wear in collars, hems and iron-creased areas.
Does linen get softer over time?
Yes. Linen is smooth and lint-free, and it gets softer the more it is washed.