Find more facts and information on our topic page about
linen
linen halls
The Oxford Companion to Irish History
|
2007
|
© The Oxford Companion to Irish History 2007, originally published by Oxford University Press 2007. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
linen halls were markets at which drapers sold linen. The
Linen Board built the first white linen hall, to handle bleached linen goods, in Dublin in 1721. Ninety per cent of its business was with English buyers. Much of the industry was concentrated in the north and, after a falling‐out with the Linen Board in 1782, Ulster drapers erected white linen halls in Armagh, Newry, and Belfast. These were not a success, as many drapers were already dealing directly with buyers in England. The white linen hall in Belfast was demolished in 1896 to make way for the new city hall.
Peter Collins
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Linen's growth a new wrinkle in dress shirts.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 8/3/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...to find smooth sales growth for one of the more wrinkly fibers -- linen -- for spring '93. Manufacturers are beefing up dress shirt programs in linen and blends such as linen/rayon and linen/cotton. The spring linen surge isn't surprising...
|
|
Linen show in Monte Carlo mixes old, new. (Fifth International Linen Festival, Monte Carlo)
Magazine article from: WWD; 4/15/1987; ; 700+ words
; Linen show in Monte Carlo mixes old, new MONTE...dominated the talk of the Fifth International Linen Festival here. Judging from the market...blends and new techniques that are making linen softer, less prone to wrinkling and creasing...
|
|
Linen. (Interior Design Market: Fabric and Wall Covering) (buyers guide)
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 10/15/1988; ; 700+ words
; LINEN THOSE OF YOU who can recall their early gradeschool lessons might remember that linen, dating back to 8000 BC, is the oldest...the world. Obtained from the flax plant, linen is called a bast fiber because it is taken...
|
|
|
Linen's setting the table for spring '95.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 8/15/1994; ; 700+ words
; NEW YORK -- Linen is the designers' pick of the spring...is to take a lot of the wrinkling out of linen and this is causing major ripples for next...pioneering work done by Vittorio Solbiati's linen blends several years ago and the upscale...
|
|
LINEN'S OUT OF THE CLOSET
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 7/26/2000; ; 700+ words
; Linen, once an expensive luxury, has come on...WHEN Marks & Spencer is selling pure Irish linen sheets and duvets for 100 (for the smallest double duvet cover) you realise that linen - for a long time a private fetish - has...
|
|
Linen lift teams lighten the load.(training hospital workers in safer lifting methods)
Newspaper article from: Hospital Employee Health; 6/1/2007; 700+ words
; Linen lift teams lighten the load Fewer injuries with carts, tugs...musculoskeletal injury. Workers change about 10 tons of soiled linen each day. Custodians would lift linen bags from patient rooms to carts. Laborers would lift bags from...
|
|
Linen regains place on fashion throne
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/5/1989; 700+ words
; Linen didn't start out as a sign of the good...for those with the means to care for it, linen originated about 8000 B.C., when lake...Stone Age encampments uncovered fragments of linen in every stage of manufacture: straw, seeds...
|
|
|
Linen takes the limelight at FIT. (Fashion Institute of Technology museum exhibition)
Magazine article from: WWD; 11/9/1993; ; 700+ words
; NEW YORK - Linen was a hit last Tuesday night, showing...opening party for the exhibition, entitled "Linen," at The Museum at the Fashion Institute...as they viewed 300 examples of the way linen has served societies from antiquity to...
|
+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+Business+News) "Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)")
|
Linen Service Owners Object to Competition from Missouri Prisons.
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, Missouri) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 3/18/2002; 700+ words
; ...Georgia Ladlie felt confident that a new linen services contract she was about to secure...when the co-owner of Sunshine Diaper and Linen found out that BJC would be sending its...of a 20-member statewide coalition of linen-service businesses that are upset with...
|
|
|
Linen again . . . naturally // The cool summer classic is feminine, soft and simple
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/14/1998; ; 688 words
; Linen is putting a soft wrinkle in fashion. The...de la Renta takes a double-faced white linen coat and softens it with fine embroidery...Lauren pairs a beaded camisole with rayon/linen flat-front pants.) "I think we've...
|
|
Linen
Book article from: How Products Are Made
Linen Background Linen yarn is spun from the long fibers found just behind the bark in the multi...cellulose fiber from the stem is spinnable and is used in the production of linen thread, cordage, and twine. From linen thread or yarn, fine toweling...
|
|
linen
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
linen was Ireland's most important manufacturing...been a tradition of flax cultivation and linen manufacture, largely for domestic consumption...skills and knowledge of trade networks enabled linen to become the dominant export from the Ulster...
|
|
|
linen halls
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
linen halls were markets at which drapers sold linen. The Linen Board built the first white linen hall, to handle bleached linen goods, in Dublin in 1721. Ninety per cent of its business was with English buyers. Much of the industry was concentrated...
|
|
Linen Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
LINEN INDUSTRY LINEN INDUSTRY. This industry originated in colonial America, where farmers raised flax to make linen clothing. Some colonies subsidized linen's manufacture into sailcloth...
|
|
|
Linen Board
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Linen Board, set up in 1711 to regulate and finance the expanding linen industry. The board was composed of 72 trustees, 18...government was very useful in winning preference for the linen trade. The board gave grants and prizes for outstanding...
|
