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Northern Silk - 17.June.2009,
Latvijas
Avize Newspaper
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Author:
Ilze Brinkmane.
Products from linen offers many unique features. Although the
cultivation of flax began to ancient Egypt, and from it
fashioned tērpos clothes Pharaoh, and in Latvia it is grown
and used for long. Flax called the northern silk, since they
share many common characteristics. Products of this material has
a natural sheen, they are flexible (after saburzīšanās
fiber averages out over time), excellent breath ability,
abrasion, biological assets - thermoregulating, harmonizing with
the natural environment. Provided, if the fibers are not
chemically and thermally alterted. Studio Linen Fantasies
founder Aija Johnson studied linen technology, worked in a
factory, "Jelgavas flax", therefore, can safely say
that she is the expert on linen. "Linen is one of the
oldest crops used in mintage of clothing, but, since the cotton
in the world presents, in my opinion, undeservedly forgotten.
Linams fiber is much longer - about 20 centimeters, while for
cotton short, so it pūkojas and demerger puteklīši.
From high-quality linen dust arise, they are even pushed. Direct
contact with human skin linen is positive both in summer and
winter, because the body maintains the desired temperature -
warm in cold weather, cool but hot. Lina clothing for which the
lining used in polyester, it loses its significance because
neelpo , "explains Aija Johnson.Tā as linen warm in
cold weather, but heat-cool, it is worth considering, and buy
the underwear and bed linen. Zīdainīši linen napkins
cries, feel the coolness and the skin vulnerable to irritation.
Linen sheets never allergic to human enemy - dust bugs. In turn,
linen curtains, unlike synthetic neutralize the static air
environment and in harmony. "We are working with the
industrial manufacture of flax, but we live in can be purchased
- coarse linen fabrics (1 m width of the price of four to five
lats). Shops sold impregnated linen fabrics, to be less crush
and more shine, but unfortunately it is only a decorative
fabric, without a positive nature, "explains speciāliste.Studio
Linen Fantasies "can also get ideas for house interior
complement. For example, with a decorative pocket affixed to the
wall - both children's belongings, documents and books in
storage. At the baby's bed in a comfortable to hold fairy-tale
books. They are even paintings, of which the subjects gleznojusi
artist Ingmars Zālīte. As Aija Johnson says, not
everyone can draw and create a painting on the linen cloth, but
it izdodoties Ingmars .***
TIP
- To keep your linen products for the unique characteristics,
they may not boil, but moderate wash in hot water with no
chemical detergents, but the soap.
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