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Butcher's linen

strong heavy linen cloth, primarily used for butchers' aprons

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ107132258 ↗
Source-derived summary

Butcher's linen (Butcher linen) was a strong heavy linen cloth. It was a strong and durable fabric used primarily for butchers' aprons.

Weave

It was a plain weave fabric made with coarse linen yarns. The fabric was rough, stiff and heavy. Linen was mostly used for Butcher's Linen due to its simple washability, but cotton was also used in some cases.

Use

Butcher's linen was initially used for aprons of waitresses and butchers jackets, and later used as a dress material and backing for starched shirt fronts.

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“Butcher's linen” enters the record as strong heavy linen cloth, primarily used for butchers' aprons. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Butcher's, linen and strong can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Butcher's linen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.