joyce888

I'd guess its Osnaburg.

susie-susie-susie

It looks like some kind of gauze material for clothing, summer blouses for example.
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Bree123

Looks like a lightweight linen to me.

Tartan

It almost looks like cheesecloth. I wonder if you could use it like the fancy burlap that they make wreaths from. You could make a bug/ sunscreen for a baby's pram. You could dye it a pretty colour and make a clothesline basket.

lynnie

looks like a cheesecloth to me. my mom would buy pot cheese and put it in that type of cloth, and wring it closed and let the liquid drip out of it.

ctyankee

Looks like osnaburg to me.

Bree123

It's much tighter weave & finer fabric than the cheesecloth I've bought, but if it is cheesecloth, it would make a really fun flange for a quilt. Just dye it any color you like & sew it between your top & binding and pull a few threads out so you get a nice fringe edge.

suern3

Looks Onasburg to me, too, although in this picture it looks a little thinner than what I bought several years ago. A lady recommended I buy it for practicing my new machine embroidery and then use for dish towels. I did practice on it, never used it for towels and if it were me, I would put it in the "donate" pile. By the way, I also decided in the process that machine embroidery is not for me. Good luck on your cleaning project.

stitch678

I t appears to be natural linen to me. l used a lot of that for crewell embroidery ( fine wool yarn, large eyed blunt needle) in the 1970s-1980s. We ironed on the outine from embroidery packets, embroidered, then blocked it & framed over thin layer of batting & no glass.Every house had a few hanging on the wall,lol.

ontheriver

Can't help with kind of fabric but it looks like the cloth my mom uses to do crewl embroidery. I would ask her but she is out of town.