What plant is linen made from?
Linen Linen Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is laborious to manufacture, but the fiber is very strong, absorbent and dries faster than cotton. Garments made of linen are valued for their exceptional coolness and freshness in hot and humid weather. The word "linen" is of West Germanic origin and cognate to the Latin name for the flax plant, "linum", and the earlier Greek λινόν ("linón"). This word history has given rise to a number of other terms in English, most notably "line," from the use of a linen (flax) thread to determine a
Linen from Ireland In Bavaria in 1909 a Jewish employee of a textile company begins importing cheaper linen from Ireland, sabotaging local production and threatening many of the workers with unemployment. Eventually his scheme is exposed. Linen from Ireland Linen from Ireland () is a 1939 German drama film directed by Heinz Helbig and starring Otto Treßler, Irene von Meyendorff and Friedl Haerlin. It was part of an ongoing campaign of anti-Semitism in German cinema of the era, and also attacked Britain with whom Germany was at war by the time of the film's release. It was made as a co-production between the