The impact of the domestic linen industry in Ulster / W. H. Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, W. H. (William Henry), 1932- author.

Contributor:

Ulster Historical Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linen industry--Northern Ireland--History.

Linen industry.

Linen industry--History--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Northern Ireland--Economic conditions.

Northern Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Belfast, Northern Ireland : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals. Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms and improve marginal land. Continual improvements by Ulster bleachers in the finishing of linens secured for them control of the industry, focussing its development. Exports to Britai

Contents:

The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The origins of the linen industry in north Armagh and the Lagan valley; 3 Drapers and bleachers in the early Ulster linen industry; 4 The market book of Thomas Greer, a Dungannon linendraper, 1758-9; 5 The linen industry portrayed in the Hincks prints of 1783; 6 Ulster landowners and the linen industry; 7 The political economy of linen: Ulster in the eighteenth century; 8 The 'linen triangle' in the 1790s; 9 Women in the domestic linen industry

10 The introduction of the flying shuttle into the weaving of linen in Ulster11 The evolution of the linen trade in Ulster before industrialisation; 12 A handloom weaving community in County Down; 1 Thomas Turner. New methods of improving flax and flax-seed and bleaching cloth (1715); Appendices; 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 (1773)

4 The report of John Greer, Inspector General for Ulster, of the state of the linen markets in said province (1784)5 Report made to the Linen Board by Mr Kirk of Keady, 1822; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-908448-24-5