Advantages of machine made linens.
The modern produced fine table linens have many advantages over the hand made linens; they are produced in mass thus meeting the huge demand for them. This has created different streams of income for many people as; the retailers, transporters, factory staff, the government and the promoters. Due to the demand and the supply being almost equal the prices are kept low than the traditional luxury linens.
In their development the factors or needs of the current world are kept in mind. The modern luxury table linens are easier to clean and maintain without distorting the designs and decorations. In the other linens, repair has always being a problem for it has to be hand done which involves skills endowed only in a few people. Their storage also is easy without much consideration of damage.
The machine made luxury linens are cheaper than the hand made ones due to factors as; machine automation where labor cost is minimized, bulk production which makes overhead costs to be spread over many items thus it becomes negligible, and the elimination of wastage due to specialization. The industry has also created more employment than the other industry.
The distribution of the luxury tablecloths has also been improved and they are available everywhere in the world. The cheapness has also eliminated some how the need to carry out repairs for would cost the same as the new one. Another advantage is that it is slowly bridging the gap of the society’s class stratification by supplying identical goods to those formerly viewed as only for the elites.