Linen

How it is used

Linen shirts, trousers and dresses are summer staples, and linen is often blended with cotton or viscose to reduce creasing and cost. Customers accept some wrinkles as part of the natural linen look.

Example sentences

1. Our bestseller is a relaxed linen shirt in five colours.

2. A linen-cotton blend creases less and costs less than pure linen.

Common collocations

• pure linen
• linen blend
• linen shirt
• washed linen
• linen-cotton

Related terms

• fibreA very thin, long strand of natural or man-made material that is spun into yarn to make fabric, such as cotton, wool, polyester or viscose.
• cottonA soft natural fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, and the yarn or fabric made from it; the most widely used natural fibre in clothing.
• wovenMade by crossing two sets of yarns at right angles on a loom, which usually gives a firm fabric with little natural stretch, like denim or poplin.
• compositionThe fibres a fabric or garment is made of and their percentages, for example 60% cotton, 40% polyester.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• linen · Tourism & Hospitality

More terms: Fibres & Fabrics

• fabric
• polyester
• knit
• GSM
• denim
• jersey
• elastane
• viscose
• wool
• silk