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Linen: The exclusive summer fabric

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With summer at our doorstep, all we can think about is adorning a floral Linen dress, while maintaining the latest fashion trends. But have you ever given a thought about how, when and where the coolest fabric, Linen was found? Introduction of "Linen" Linen is produced out of a plant called Flax, if said specifically it is a cellulosic fiber derived from the stem of the flax plant, the plant is known to be the oldest cultivated plant of human history. Traces of flax plants have been found from the Neolithic age. The earliest evidence of Linen being produced dates back to around 4000 years ago in Egypt, and that is the reason the fabric is called out to be one of the oldest fabrics . The Egyptians later with coming of industrialization, started trading linen and people of the Mediterranean area also received the fabric . Linen with the help of trade reached Ireland, the country gave a new shape to the fabric , it had the most systemized means to produce flax. After Eng