All fabrics listed here are made from 100% pure Mercerised Linen (unless specifically stated in each individual product description). Linen is manufactured from the fibres of the flax plant. Counted Linen fabrics generally have “slubs” within each strand and have been traditionally used in needlecraft for many hundreds of years. Our counted Linen fabric is “evenly woven” to produce a specific thread count per inch or cm. (example: 32 Count = 32 threads per inch block (or 12.6 threads per each centimetre block).