What happens when linen is soaked in tar?

Soaking is an act of wetting something thoroughly for sometime. Like for example if you soak vegetables or fruits, it helps to make it clean from pesticides or bacterias. Like this. Soaking is nothing but cleaning the vegetables, fruits, nuts etc. Soaking can be done to make a soft paste of nuts. read more

I can think of a couple of things. One, you have a drippy mess and two, you have a piece of linen dripping with tar. I can't imagine for what purpose though. Maybe the linen would be waterproof but the fumes would be terrible and inhaling them probably dangerous. read more

Tar (or pitch) -soaked flax makes an excellent caulking for clinker-built boats. This has been used for millennia throughout Europe and Asia. read more