If linen and silk hold up better than any other fabric, would they make the perfect diaper? Even if I choose to use them with hemp? We are confident that linen absorbs well and the same confidence we here from our customers buying our linen towels.
Will it work for cloth diapers I believe your research should answer this question. The cotton fibres consist of straight or twisted flattened tubes with very large central canals and quite transparent see B.
The wool fibres are very variable, but consist of a number of plates or scales built up to form a tube, and the inner tube is usually more or less coloured in the natural wool see C. The silk fibre is usually very small and perfectly smooth see D. The action of chemical agents upon the fibres depends upon their composition.
The word linen comes from the Latin word for flax, linum. The linen fiber is not to be confused with bed linen , although the two are connected. Linen as a fiber looks very similar to hemp and the two can be hard to distinguish from each other without a microscope. The two share a lot of the same properties too, although hemp is known to be a little darker and have poorer elastic recovery than linen. Linen has a beautiful, natural color, varying from ivory to ecru, tan and grey.
Microscopical appearance of various vegetable fibers. Image via Google. However wool becomes weaker once wetted whereas linen gets stronger. Absorbency is also dependent on the particular weave of the fabric and cotton tends to hold onto moisture for longer than linen. Linen fibers are much thicker than cotton and thus linen fabrics have a lower thread count number of yarns per inch of fabric than those of cotton.
However, it should be noted that thread count does not necessarily correlate with good quality, especially not when comparing two different fibers. Antique linen sheet dating from the late 19th century. Made from fine linen and intricately embroidered with floral motifs and monogram. Linen, unlike cotton, takes a long time to soften up.
Linen sheets typically needs three years of use before they develop their natural sheen. Cotton, on the other hand, has a much softer hand when comparing freshly woven fabrics.
But good things come to those who wait, as linen sheets typically lasts for two to three decades whereas sheets of cotton sheets commonly only lasts between three to five years. Once worn and washed many times, those wrinkles fade away. Ironically, lignan, a plant compound found in the flax plant is known to have anti-wrinkling properties on human skin!
Nowadays, tzitzit are not made of wool-linen mixtures either. She accused Moses of lying when he gave the commandment, because she was sure that God said that the tzitzit should be all blue, not just a little bit! Images from bibleplaces. The prohibition of wearing wool and linen together makes sense after your explanation. Thanks and God bless you for clarifying Deuteronomy so well.
May you also clarify Deuteronomy and 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with a second kind of seed, or the whole yield will have to be forfeited, both the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard itself. Thanks again. But in the context of that passage, it most probably relates to a polemic against ancient Near East magical practices.
My understanding is that these two laws had two different reasons. Other laws are similar, like not muzzling an ox as it threshes, and not capturing both a bird and her young at the same time. It was regarded as a priestly mixture, just as a wool-linen blend was. Also, in drought-prone areas, if one crop fails another may still yield. I was just talking with one of my orthodox clients about this rule a few weeks ago!
Thanks for the fascinating post, Auntie. The same Hebrew word is used again in Numbers and The reason we have the tzitzit is so that we will not forget the commandments which the generation coming out of Egypt did.
The command to wear tzitzit is tied by key words to the previous narrative where the children of Israel failed to be obedient.
An ox and a donkey are not to be yoked because an ox is considered a clean animal while a donkey is an unclean animal. They would be unequally yoked as a believer and unbeliever would be unequally yoked in the NT. A donkey must be redeemed by a land or, if not, be put to death.
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