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.

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.

Linen was sometimes used as currency in ancient Egypt.

In 1857 the new stone arch cost $ 3, 200 to build and was paid for by the Willimantic Linen Co. ( Willimantic Thread ) and an eight percent tax hike on the town ’ s richest citizens.

Defunct retailer Pacific Linen was once based in Bothell until 1996.

He was a member of the Linen Hall library and the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society.

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.

During 1825 the business was listed as ' Harrod and Wicking, Linen Drapers, Retail ', but this partnership was dissolved at the end of that year.

The merchant banking division of the Bank of Scotland was relaunched as British Linen Bank ( now known as HBOS Treasury Services ).

The town was becoming prosperous, and by 1882 it had a Head Post Office with a savings bank, insurance and telegraph departments, and branches of the Bank of Scotland and the British Linen Company, Caledonian, Commercial, North of Scotland, Royal and Union Banks, and the National Securities Savings Bank, offices or agencies of 48 insurance companies, five hotels and a newspaper.

His very first novel which is also considered his masterpiece, Maila Anchal ( The Soiled Linen, 1954 ), was a social novel that depicted the life of rural Bihar and its people, especially the backward and the deprived.

Linen is cloth woven from, or yarn spun from the flax fibre, which was grown in Ireland for many years before advanced agricultural methods and more suitable climate led to the concentration of quality flax cultivation in northern Europe ( Most of the world crop of quality flax is now grown in Northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands ).

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.

In 1897 the family firm became a public company, Heelas Sons and Co. Ltd, and in 1890 the House of Heelas was appointed Linen Drapers and House Furnishers to the then Prince of Wales.

Linen was largely made at Gladbach, leather at Malmedy, glass in the Saar district and beetroot sugar near Cologne.

Keep It Simple was recorded in Sickmen's apartment in Charlottesville's Linen Building, also by Cole who did the sound engineering on both recordings.

Curt Teich in Chicago was the most prominent and largest printer and publisher of Linen Type postcards pioneering lithography with his " Art Colortone " process.

As the Library's centenary approached it was hit by another setback as it lost its premises in White Linen Hall to make way for the construction of the new City Hall.

Linen was an especially popular cloth during the Middle Ages in Europe, and the tradition of calling household fabric goods " linens " dates from this period.

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

Colonel Barbour was founder and president of The Linen Thread Company, Inc., a successful thread manufacturing enterprise having much business in the United States, Ireland, and Scotland.

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.

An exhibition about the Irish linen industry is now housed in the Irish Linen Centre, which can be found in the old Market House in Market Square.

Linen spinning and weaving started as a cottage industry in the village.

Category: Linen industry in Ireland

Category: Linen industry in Ireland

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1730: The Glasgow Linen Society is formed

1746: The British Linen Company is formed

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 is particularly suitable for the use of oil paint.

He served in a law office and in the British Linen Bank, then as factor for Sir Charles Ross's estate at Balnagown Castle.

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The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis ( also rarely known as Liber Agramensis ) ( Latin for Linen Book of Zagreb or Book of Agram ) is the longest Etruscan text and the only extant linen book.

Some of these linen mills survived as manufacturers and major employers into the 1960s, such as Robbs and Achesons but all eventually closed as the demand for Irish Linen fell due to the manufacture of cheaper, man made, fabrics.

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.

The predominant occupation listed in the 1841 census and 1843 statistical account for Barry Parish is that of ' Linen Hand Loom Weaver '.

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.

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

Along with advances in printing technique, Linen Type cards allowed for very vibrant ink colors.

In 1802 the Library moved into permanent premises in White Linen Hall ( from which it took its name, though legally it is still the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge ).

" The manufacture of Linen is extensively carried on, and a fair is held for it's sale "

In her review for Dirty Linen, Annette C. Eshleman said, " In just under three hours, viewers are able to watch as Paul evolves from a young, inexperienced folk singer wearing a backwards baseball cap to the highly respected, confident, seasoned performer that he is today ".