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Yea, my daily driver, shop strop is an old ¼ inch thick, Russian Certified strop that was stiff as a yard stick.

After months of oiling, re-hydrating and rolling it is as soft and limp as a wet...

I will roll it when fully dry, it does soften up the linen. I haven’t tried stretching it dry, but I suspect it would because it was a quarter inch longer than the leather when I started. I figured...

. I hung the whole thing from the open garage door and let it dry on a nice warm day.

About 8 hours later it was dry except for the spot where the clamp was, and the finished length was less than...

How to STRETCH a Vintage Linen

I have posted about this a couple time in old linen cleaning threads.

When you wash a vintage linen, it will shrink as much as an inch, but because of the weave...