ocr: Weaver Cloth called linen was made from flax. Flax is a grain. Women used a spindle to twist the fibers from the flax stem into thread. Threads were stretched across the frame ofa a loom. Then more thread was tied to as small piece of wood or bone called as shuttle. The shuttle was pushed over one string and under the next all the way across the loom. Slowly, the threads combined to form cloth. and the threads were woven loosely, the linen was coarse. Ifthe thread was spun carefully and the threads were. woven close together, See Also: the linen cloth was delicate. If the thread Adults was spu ...