It is the crystallisation of all the hours of abstract human labour power contained within it, duh.
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1/20th of a coat
A miserable pile of secrets
Dammit!
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
But enough discourse, have at you
5% of a coat
you take a bolt of linen, measure a yard and cut it
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
A breathable weave of flax.
Its impossible to understand what a yard of linen is without comparing it to another commodity not of itself.
It's like a meter of fabric
$16.49 in the United States
It's a space besides a house where you grow linen from linen seeds