Thursday, March 15, 2012

Crash?



I learned a new thing today, crash linen.

Toad

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

"crash linen"

Hm. You gave us the term, but as for the learning, you kinda left us on our own. I even had to get past google's Did You Mean CRUSHED Linen?

Onward, keep looking. Here's Britannica's take:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/141869/crash?anchor=ref70117

Which points to the term "Russian crash" which I happen to have a link for purchasing, I've bought from these folks a few times [for domestic uses], you might want to take a look at these folks, sir. That is, should you be interested in Russian crash which is heavily slubbed, very inexpensive.

http://www.fabrics-store.com/first.php?goto=fabric_type&menu=f&fabric_type=1

-Old Faithful

Toad said...

From the ad I take it to mean natural (unbleached and undyed) linen. I have a sport coat made from it (the fabric was cheap). I never knew such fabric had a special name.

Dustin B. said...

As for myself, I would just like to have the opportunity to buy a brand new Crash suit for only $38.

Toad said...

Double breasted too!

Anonymous said...

"From the ad I take it to mean natural (unbleached and undyed) linen. I have a sport coat made from it (the fabric was cheap)."

Ok.

What color is your sportcoat that's made from natural/unbleached/cheap/undyed/crash linen? Is it brownish like that which is today called "flax"? or is it yellowish like what we today called "natural"?

-Old

Toad said...

One of each

jacket in grey nubby crash and suit in natural

Toad said...

http://to-the-manner-born.blogspot.com/2009/08/jacket-with-thousand-fathers.html

Anonymous said...

Ahhhhhh. Thousand fathers.

I love taking classes here at ToadU.

-Flo