Linen typically has a thick and thin character with a crisp and textured feel to it, but it can range from stiff and rough, to soft and smooth.

Linen is relatively easy to take care of, since it resists dirt and stains, has no lint or pilling tendency, and can be dry-cleaned, machine-washed or steamed.

The song has been recorded by Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Chieftains, Josh Andrews, The Flash Girls, Caroline Groussain, Sheri Kling, Show of Hands, Peter, Paul and Mary ( as " Flora "), Mark Knopfler, Crooked Still, Dirty Linen, Branimir Štulić ( in Croatian, titled " Usne Vrele Višnje ") and Pat Gubler ( PG Six ) on the album Slightly Sorry ( Amish Records 2010 ) among others.

Since about the 1950s to 1960s the flax fibre for Irish Linen yarn has been, almost exclusively, imported from France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Linen damask weaving in Ireland has less capacity, and it is confined at very much the top end of the market for luxury end uses.

What constitutes genuine Irish linen has been defined by the Irish Linen Guild.

In 2009, a Linen Chest opened in the mall but only has an outdoor entrance.

Solis also encouraged and negotiated with the International Produce Market and American Linen Company to stay and / or locate in the 25th Wards Planned Manufacturing District ( PMD ) which has brought and continues to bring jobs and capital to the community.

The Linen Hall Library, the oldest library in Belfast, has endured many changes of fortune since its foundation in 1788, but has maintained a vision of providing access to literature and local studies to the population at large.

Linen thread has a gummy consistency if chewed, due to its pectin content ; a quality only found in bast fibers.

Linen became less common, a fact blamed on poor flax harvest and girls being poor spinners, but emphasis was added to the finest of the clothing, and a money dowry was sometimes added, particularly if the bride was regarded as having some fault.

Linen textiles appear to be some of the oldest in the world: their history goes back many thousands of years.

The Street that runs from the back door of Belfast City Hall through the middle of Linen Quarter is Linen Hall Street.

Linen wrinkles very easily, and so some more formal linen garments require ironing often, in order to maintain perfect smoothness.

Linen produces a cool fabric that wrinkles heavily, and is mostly used in light summer shirts.

The company needed to increase production of the Miles Messenger and in doing so they took over a former Linen Mill in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland for the production of components of the aircraft.

Linen was especially very expensive in Nanjing, so they bought the linen in Wuhu and shipped it to Nanjing.

* Linen reinforced NEMA L per MIL-I-24768 TYPE FBI NEMA LE per MIL-I-24768 TYPE FEI Good mechanical and electrical strength.

Former Head Office of the British Linen Bank in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.

Linen was Scotland's premier industry in the 18th century and formed the basis for the later cotton, jute, and woollen industries.

The British Linen Company, established in 1746, was the largest firm in the Scottish linen industry in the 18th century, exporting linen to England and America.

Several prominent businesses in Bermuda have a clear Irish influence, such as the Irish Linen Shop, Tom Moore's Tavern and Flanagan's Irish Pub and Restaurant.

New players and guests traditionally connected in " The Coat Closet ", but a second area, " The Linen Closet " ( specially programmed as a silent area ) was later added as an alternative connection point.

To the east of the entry hall, hallways provide access to some individual rooms, the Linen Closet, and to the eastern wing of the house.

Due to hard life conditions, after graduation from vocational school, 17-year-old Leszek got a job in the Textile Linen Plant in Żyrardów, while continuing his education in the evenings at the Vocational Secondary School of Electric Power Engineering.

The third floor consists of the White House Solarium, Game Room, Linen Room, a Diet Kitchen, and another sitting room ( previously used as President George W. Bush's workout room ).

* Linen closet: A tall, narrow closet, typically located in or near bathrooms and / or bedrooms.

Linen cloth recovered from Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea.

Linen () is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant, Linum usitatissimum.

Linen is labor-intensive to manufacture, but when it is made into garments, it is valued for its exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather.

Linen was sometimes used as currency in ancient Egypt.

Linen is a bast fiber.

Linen fabric feels cool to the touch.

Linen fabrics have a high natural luster ; their natural color ranges between shades of ivory, ecru, tan, or grey.

Linen should not be dried too much by tumble drying: it is much easier to iron when damp because of its growth pattern.

Linen technology and science in agriculture were exhibited in " Farm and Factory " in Belfast.

Trade between Elim and Eilat furnished Frankincense and Myrrh, brought up from Ethiopia and Punt ; Bitumen and Natron, from the Dead Sea ; finely woven Linen, from Byblos ; and copper amulets, from Timna ; all mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.

Well, after everybody has followed the New England pattern of segregating one's children into private schools, only the poor folks are left.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

The industry has said 1960 was a poor year.

The poor uneducated newlywed, a certain Gontran De Boismassif, has his problems in getting the necessary information.

Land which is unsuitable for arable farming usually has at least one of the following deficiencies: no source of fresh water ; too hot ( desert ); too cold ( Arctic ); too rocky ; too mountainous ; too salty ; too rainy ; too snowy ; too polluted ; or too nutrient poor.

Johnson's administration has received very poor historical rankings amongst scholars, typically amongst the bottom three.

Instead of seeing it as a fair system under which ' everyone ' has equal rights, they saw it as the numerically preponderant poor tyrannizing over the rich.

The elephant ( though its range has become restricted through the attacks of hunters ) is found both in the savannas and forest regions, the latter being otherwise poor in large game, though the special habitat of the chimpanzee and gorilla.

However it has often been argued that in the dominated countries ( most of the world ) the WSF is little more than an ' NGO fair ' driven by Northern NGOs and donors most of which are hostile to popular movements of the poor.

Sub Saharan Africa, as an area that felt the consequences of poor governance and was less responsive to globalisation, has seen an increase in poverty while all other areas of the world have seen no change in rates.

Critics have asserted that people from poor countries ( the Third World ) have been relatively accepting and supportive of globalization while the strongest opposition to globalization has come from wealthy " First World " activists, unions and NGOs.

" He later goes on to claim that the anti-globalization movement has failed to attract widespread support from poor and working people from the Third World, and that its " strongest and most uncomprehending critics had always been the workers whose liberation from employment they were trying to secure.

Most legal cases in adversarial systems do not go to trial ; this can lead to great injustice when the defendant has an unskilled or overworked attorney, which is likely to be the case when the defendant is poor.

An early demo of the game has been found, with crude graphics, no sound and poor collision detection.

It has relatively high compressive strength, of about 170 MPa ( 1800 kgf / cm² ) but poor tensile strength of 104 – 121 MPa and very low shear stress strength ( 51. 6 MPa ), meaning it resists pushing forces well, but not pulling or torsional forces.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Nehemiah sees that the Jewish nobles are oppressing the poor, and forces the cancellation of all debt and mortgages ; while previous governors have been corrupt and oppressive, he has been righteous and just.

This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.

Performance against this metric has been especially poor since mid-2000.

Micah 1: 2-7 draws on this event: Samaria, says the prophet, has been destroyed by God because of its crimes of idolatry, oppression of the poor, and misuse of power.

It has been estimated that in England in the 18th century carrying bricks by horse and cart for ten miles ( 16 km ) over the poor roads then existing could more than double their price.

PET has similar spatial resolution to fMRI, but it has extremely poor temporal resolution.

This technique has an extremely high temporal resolution, but a relatively poor spatial resolution.