Drawn from the stems of wild flax, these fibers are long, pale, and surprisingly strong for how fine they look. Left as they are they are little more than a loose handful of straw-colored thread, but retted, spun, and set on a loom they become plain linen — cool, breathable, and forgiving.
They are the first fibers worth truly weaving rather than merely enduring: a clean step up from coarse hemp sacking, and the plain cloth on which a tailor learns to make something people are glad to wear.


Flax Fibers

Long, pale strands stripped from wild flax stalks.

, linen is a plain, honest cloth — cool against the skin, quick to breathe, and forgiving under the needle, though it takes dye poorly and holds a crease worse. Yet no tailor ever regrets the hours spent on it.
A clear step up from coarse burlap, it is the first fabric a tailor makes that a person is glad to wear rather than merely resigned to. From it come the realm's simplest everyday tunics, wraps, and light garments.


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