What is a yard of linen?
What is a yard of linen?
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A miserable pile of secrets
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Dammit!
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Bit idea: it's the Vampire Killer but it's made out of linen and there's a little pillow at the end and you use it when you're pillow fighting with the fellas
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But enough discourse, have at you
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1/20th of a coat
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5% of a coat
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you take a bolt of linen, measure a yard and cut it
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Well linen is a cloth made from the fibers of the flax plant and I guess a yard of it would be 3 square feet
Makes me wonder what the total surface area of all my clothes is
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A breathable weave of flax.
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Its impossible to understand what a yard of linen is without comparing it to another commodity not of itself.
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I don't know what that would be... but while I think about it, I'mma put on my coat and go for a walk.
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It's like a meter of fabric
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It's a space besides a house where you grow linen from linen seeds
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$16.49 in the United States
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It is the crystallisation of all the hours of abstract human labour power contained within it, duh.