Have you seen a fabric that seems much like linen, but you’re pretty sure it isn’t? If you are interested in vintage clothing you will see this fabric regularly. From the VFG Fabric Resource:
Butcher cloth
Butcher cloth is rayon or rayon/cotton, spun and woven to resemble linen with linen-like slubs. Butcher cloth used to be called butcher linen, but that is no longer correct according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Uses: Dresses, suits, skirts
See also: Butcher linen, Linen
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| Machine-embroidered butcher cloth ©Vintage Fashion Guild - Text by Margaret Wilds/denisebrain, photo by Hoyt Carter |
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| Robin's egg blue butcher linen dress currently in my Etsy shop |
2 comments:
Another good one!!! I've seen several items like this and I always described them as "somewhere between linen and burlap" which I knew wasn't quite right!
Thanks for the continuing education :-)
Hi Dina, I'm glad this helps! I know I was flummoxed by butcher cloth before I was able to pinpoint the purpose (which is to imitate linen) and name of it.
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