Characteristics:
- Woven from the stems of flax, a vegetable fiber.
- Has twice the strength of cotton.
- Absorbs and releases perspiration quickly, thus allowing the fabric to "breathe". Linen is one of the most breathable fabrics, making it especially cool and comfortable to wear in the heat.
- Lightweight and absorbent.
- Not stretchy.
- Wrinkles easily.
Care Instructions:
- Hand wash or dry clean.
Cotton Linen, an elegant, beautiful, durable, the refined luxury fabric.
Linen is the strongest of the vegetable fibers and has 2 to 3 times the strength of cotton. Not only is the linen fiber strong, it is smooth, making the finished fabric lint free. Linen is an expensive, natural fiber with staying power. Linen fabric will be a bit stiff at first, but will grow softer with each washing.
Though the fiber and the fabric are both commonly known as linen, it is actually flax, the fiber of the Linum plant. Linen is generally favored for its fine, strong, cool-wearing properties. It drapes away from the skin rather than clinging to it. In knitwear, linen is combined with other natural or synthetic fibers for improved strength and resiliency.
Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions. The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. One of the oldest textile fibers known.
亞麻的纖維以其天然、古樸、稀有、色彩自然而高貴，被譽為:「天然纖維中的纖維皇后」。這是天然纖維中唯一的束狀纖維，是其它纖維不具有的特殊結構果膠質斜邊孔。
亞麻纖維具有吸濕、散熱、透氣、抗菌、防蟲蛀、抗靜電、不粘皮膚、挺栝大方、粗獷自然的特點。亞麻飾品質地良好、美觀舒適，越來越深入人們的消費心理。
亞麻服裝比其他衣料更能減少出汗，吸水速度甚至比棉布要快幾倍。亞麻的這種天然的透氣性、吸濕性、清爽性和排汗性,使其被稱為輕鬆的「天然空調」。
由於亞麻的纖維是中空的,富含氧氣,使厭氧菌無法生存,抗菌性能良好,是很好的保健面料。亞麻還因正負電荷平衡而不產生靜電，無灰塵吸附,「愛乾淨」的特質也非常討人喜歡。其天然綠色環保,頗受到廣大消費者的青睞!
炎熱的夏季使用亞麻織物，使人備感透心涼爽，能迅速地將皮膚有汗水的熱量排出，使皮膚呼吸暢通，無汗粘身。其防潮、防黴的特點使皮膚不受細菌的傷害。天氣驟冷，又會使熱量不會輕易傳導，能夠保溫。
但是亞麻有個不好的特點就是手感不好，顏色比較單一，所以經過很多人的研究，才生產出現在比較流行的[棉麻]，棉和麻的混合物，繼承了麻的，也有棉的特性，比麻更柔軟，手感好，排汗吸濕更強，而且好的棉麻不易褶皺。
Cotton Linen is from flax, a best fiber taken from the stalk of the plant. The Cotton Linen fiber can be easily dyed and the color does not fade when washed. Cotton Linen does wrinkle easily but also presses easily. Linen, like cotton, can also be boiled without damaging the fiber.
Highly absorbent and a good conductor of heat, this fabric is cool in garments. However, constant creasing in the same place in sharp folds will tend to break the linen threads. This wear can show up in collars, hems, and any area that is iron creased during the laundering. Linen has poor elasticity and does not spring back readily.
