natural vegetable fiber of great solidity resulting from the stem of an annual plant – very light material, very flexible but very crumpled – the Irish linen is on the other hand heavier and its fibers are longer: it crumples less and its touch is less rough – the mixtures with silkflexible and resistant thread produced by the larva of vario and woolcontinuous growth fiber of animal origin (alpaca, camel, Kas can also give more behaviour to the clothing