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

Linen, salted beef and pickled butter were Ireland ’ s chief export earners and the war endangered this trade.

The smaller Taymouth Linen works were opened in 1867 to the west of Panmure Works and the Vitriol Works, and at its height contained 100 power looms.

Wool and Linen were common fabrics used, though the wealthy sometimes wore fancy silk tunics, or a lesser fabric with silk trim. Germanic tunic of the 4th Century, A. D. found at the Thorsberg moor

Linen, cotton, gloves and cutlery were also manufactured in the county, silk at Malmesbury and of course carpets at Wilton.

Famous emporia include Sais where Solon went to acquire the knowledge of Egypt, Elim where Hatshepsut kept her Red Sea fleet, Elat, where Thebes was supplied with the mortuary materials, Linen, Bitumen, Naphtha, Frankincense, Myrrh, and carved stone amulets from Palestine, Canaan, Aram, Lebanon, Amon, Hazor, Moab, Edom and the Arabian Peninsula from the Arabia Petra to Midian and Punt, Olbia where cereals, fish and slaves were imported from.

Linen weaving and brickmaking were for a long time, next to farming, the most important economic activities.

Many were sewn into two medleys, " Dirty Linen " and " Flatback Caper ".

The Linen Rolls, Libri Lintei in Latin, were a collection of books written on linen, a technique attributed to the Etruscans.

The Linen Books were also used, with less confidence, by another historian Aelius Tubero, who likewise wrote about myths.

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 was sometimes used as currency in ancient Egypt.

Thebes used Nubian gold or Nub from her conquests south into Kush to facilitate the purchase of Frankincense, Myrrh, Bitumen, Natron, Juniper oil, Linen, and Copper amulets for the mummification industry at Karnak.

Common materials used in macramé include cotton twine, Linen, hemp, leather or yarn.

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

Fabric which is woven outside Ireland and brought to Ireland to be bleached / dyed and finished cannot carry the Irish Linen Guild logo, which is the Guild trademark, and signifies the genuine Irish Linen brand.

Major employers include Pork Farms, Stalbridge Linen ( a commercial laundry ), Guys Marsh Prison, Wessex Electrical and the Royal Mail.

BET entered the laundry business in 1934, and in 1935 acquired an interest in Advance Linen Services, which became a subsidiary in 1955.

* 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.

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

Linen is a bast fiber.

Linen fabric feels cool to the touch.

Linen has poor elasticity and does not spring back readily, explaining why it wrinkles so easily.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The wagons were burning fiercely.

The wagons and the coach were beyond saving and so were the buildings.

It was a busy street, conveniently near the shopping center, and unattended horses and wagons were often left at the curbside.

and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

Fruits and vegetables were sold in the city square from the backs of carts and wagons and their proprietors used street callers ( town criers ) to announce their whereabouts for the convenience of the customers.

Tallard's force had suffered considerably more than Marlborough's troops on their march – many of his cavalry horses were suffering from glanders, and the mountain passes were proving tough for the 2, 000 wagons of provisions.

As the Romans advanced in a wedge formation, the Britons attempted to flee, but were impeded by the presence of their own families, whom they had stationed in a ring of wagons at the edge of the battlefield, and were slaughtered.

This is not the first instance of this tactic — the women of the Cimbri, in the Battle of Vercellae against Gaius Marius, were stationed in a line of wagons and acted as a last line of defence.

One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.

These were all horse drawn or relied on gravity, with a stationary steam engine to haul the wagons back to the top of the incline.

By the spring of 1864, 8, 000 Navajo men, women and children were forced to march or ride in wagons 300 miles ( 480 km ) from Fort Canby to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

On 16 October 1836, a Boer laager ( or fortified circle of wagons ) led by Andries Hendrik Potgieter, was attacked by an Ndebele force of about 5, 000, who looted all of Potgieter's livestock, but were unable to defeat the laager in what became known as the Battle of Vegkop.

The S & DR's initial track gauge of was set to accommodate the existing gauge of hundreds of horse-drawn chaldron wagons that were already in use on the wagonways in the mines.

The police were to transport the bar's alcohol in patrol wagons.

Twenty-eight cases of beer and nineteen bottles of hard liquor were seized, but the patrol wagons had not yet arrived, so patrons were required to wait in line for about 15 minutes.

Over twenty wagons of furniture and household items were removed from the building and sold at a public auction.

William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell were the three founders of the Pony Express and were already in the freighting business in the late 1850s with more than 4, 000 men, 3, 500 wagons and some 40, 000 oxen.

The casualties were delivered not only by messenger report, but also by " meat wagons " delivering the wounded and dying to the hospital.

These are more properly called wagons or carts and were still double-axled and pulled by oxen or tamed asses before the introduction of horses c. 2000 BC.