Linen
The best quality canvases for painting have been made out of this fabric since the fifteenth century. Linen is made from the fibres of the flax plant and its fibres are longer and stronger than the cotton fibre giving it more strength and stability.
Joseph Southall; Anna Elizabeth Southall
by Joseph Edward Southall
1911
NPG 7020
Salman Rushdie ('The Moor')
by Bhupen Khakhar
1995
NPG 6352
John Robert Fowles
by Tomas Watson
2001
NPG 6584
Paul Nurse ('Paul')
by Jason Brooks
2008
NPG 6837