how to tell linen from cotton cloth?

Answer 1

Linen is also cotton , but the best test is porus . Take boiling water and use it as a filter. Linen is very effective

Answer 2

Cotton is from the cotton plant. Linen is from the flax (aka linseed) plant. They are nothing alike! Extracting the flax fibers to make linen is a very long and tedious process, whereas the process for cotton is relatively quick and easy.

Cotton threads are relatively uniform is size. Linen threads are often noticeably uneven. Look at the threads with a magnifying glass. Cotton fibers are very short and have been spun together to make a very long thread, hence the "fuzz" or lint that can form on cotton items. Linen is relatively lint free.

Linen is much lighter than cotton, absorbs much more, and dries very fast. Wet a finger and press it to the fabric, then turn the fabric over. If the water soaked in quickly, and the wet area is much larger than your finger, it is linen. If the material becomes almost translucent where it's wet, it is linen.

Also, linen has very little to no elasticity. The only way it "stretches" would be by pulling diagonal to the weave, whereas cotton will stretch in any direction. Both linen and cotton will come out of the washer wrinkled, but when you run a warm iron over linen straight out of the washing machine, it will be crisp and dried in seconds. Not so with cotton!

Answer 3

linen is it self a cotton cloth.

Answer 4

Linen really wrinkles