Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster

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Scholarly work. Deals with the industry - embracing flax growing, weaving / spinning to produce yarn / cloth, bleaching, trading in cloth - from the 17th century largely to the early 19th century. Chapters include: 'Origins of the linen industry in north Armagh and the Lagan Valley'; 'Drapers and bleachers in the early Ulster linen industry'; 'The market book of Thomas Greer, a Dungannon linen draper, 1758-59'; 'The linen industry portrayed in the Hincks prints of 1783'; 'Ulster landowners and the linen industry'; 'The political economy of linen - Ulster in the eighteenth century'; 'The 'linen triangle' in the 1790s'; 'Women in the domestic linen industry'; 'Introduction of the flying shuttle into the weaving of linen in Ulster'; 'The evolution of the linen trade in Ulster before industrialisation'; 'A handloom weaving community in County Down' [Tullylish]. Appendices provide transcriptions of three pamphlets: 1] Thomas Turner, 'New methods of improving flax and flax-seed and bleaching cloth', 1715; 2] 'The case of the linen manufacture of Ireland relative to the bleaching and the whitening the same', 1750; 3] 'Serious considerations on the present alarming state of agriculture and the linen trade by a farmer'. There are also transcriptions of John Greer's report on the linen markets, 1784, and Mr Keady's report to the Linen Board, 1822