Linen
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Encyclopedia article on linen and the linen industry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. It covers the history of the trade and its decline under cotton, hand and machine flax spinning, hackling, preparing, wet and dry spinning, yarn counts and measures, bleaching, thread, power-loom weaving, and types of linen fabric. It closes with tables of spindles and power-looms by country and of British linen exports, plus a short bibliography.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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