Suitable linen thread is no longer available so today cotton thread is used.
I could have done better for him, the original was unbleached linen thread.
Only the wavy tendril of linen thread showed what it really was, but that was enough.
By 1974, Itter had settled on a single medium - linen thread - and a single kind of knot.
Most of this embroidery was done in heavy linen thread, often in the same color as the smock.
His wife also spun linen thread in the same mill.
During the last few years, these skirts were also made of linen threads.
Like the linen thread, they were the material with which she wove.
Tønder lace was traditionally made in fine linen thread, imported from the Netherlands.
Since the disappearance of the very fine linen threads, it has commonly been made in cotton.