Manufacture of Linen in Ireland
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An article from Baldwin's Textile Designer, reprinted from the Canadian Manufacturer, on the linen industry in Ireland. It opens with US flax import figures for early 1889 and argues that North American farmers neglect flax. It then gives a history of Irish flax growing and linen weaving, from legend through the Huguenot immigration, the start of wet spinning at Belfast in 1830 and the growth of power looms. It also describes the stages of flax preparation and mill spinning (roughing, hackling, sorting, spreading, drawing, roving, spinning) with worker ages and wages, and closes on the harsh conditions of women spinners.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- September 1889
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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