However, trade with the West Indies began to made up for the loss of the tobacco business, reflecting the British demand for sugar and the demand in the West Indies for herring and linen goods.

With its bonds functioning as bank notes, the company gradually moved into the business of lending and discounting to other linen manufacturers, and in the early 1770s banking became its main activity.

Initially it had six sets of stones and two wheels, powered by a fall in the river, but in 1849, Henry Warne moved his business from Hoxne mill to Syleham, and used the mill to power looms on which a coarse cloth made from linen and cotton called drabbet was woven.

Others were Michael Sadler ( 1780 – 1835 ), a Wesleyan Methodist, who had a business importing Irish linen ; Richard Oastler ( 1789 – 1861 ), a land agent from a Wesleyan background ; Edwin Chadwick ( 1800 – 1890 ) who had been Bentham's secretary and Robert Owen ( 1771 – 1758 ).

As the second son he expected to take up the linen trading business in Dublin.

By the 1730s, the declining linen cloth business was being succeeded by considerable trade in linen yarn.

Bessbrook is named from Elizabeth or Bess Nicholson, wife of Joseph Nicholson whose family had carried on a linen business in the district from 1806 until 1845.

In the first half of 1850 he inherited his father's business and built up a profitable trade in flax, linen processing and the sale of textiles.

His two uncles, Robert and Nathaniel, were linen merchants and, after completing his education at Harrow School, Samuel joined the business in 1778.

Simeon's fairness toward gentiles is illustrated by the following narrative: Simeon lived in humble circumstances, supporting himself and his family by conducting a small business in linen goods.

Following the Seven Years ' War, the town's population fell below 6, 000, but an economic revival based on the linen and tobacco industries brought growth from the 1780s.

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.

At the time of Korah's engulfment, the earth became like a funnel, and everything that belonged to him, even linen that was at the launderer's and needles that had been borrowed by persons living at a distance from Korah, rolled till it fell into the chasm ( Yer.

It would appear that, although the immigrant Quakers consequently found living conditions in Mayo too difficult, the linen industry picked up in the mid-18th century and for the next forty years or so the town prospered around the industry, but in the early 19th century it again fell into decline as it was superseded as a port by the town of Westport some miles to the south.

Argiento made him lie down on the bed, brought a pan of hot water, dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter.

For erysipelas a mixture of one dram borax and one ounce glycerine was applied to the afflicted part on linen cloth.

As he ranged his belongings on the bureau he noticed a film of white dust on the dark surface of the wood beyond the linen cover.

In Italy, he returned to painting, at first producing a series of works executed in tempera on linen.

In the years leading to 1520 he produced a wide range of works, including the woodblocks for the first western printed star charts in 1515 and portraits in tempera on linen in 1516.

Two-dimensional ( unshaded ) cross-stitch in floral and geometric patterns, usually worked in black and red cotton floss on linen, is characteristic of folk embroidery in Eastern and Central Europe.

The army of heaven is described in similar terms as the resurrected and raptured believers: " The armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses.

File: Coptic rondel. jpg | 6th century Rondel, wool on linen.

Belfast developed faster than Dublin during this period on a mixture of international trade, factory-based linen cloth production and shipbuilding.

The single extant Etruscan book, Liber Linteus, which was written on linen, survived only because it was used as mummy wrappings.

With economic stagnation since the late 17th century, which was particularly acute in 1704 ; the country depended more and more heavily on sales of cattle and linen to England, who used this to create pressure for a union.

Many of those who remained were now crofters: poor families living on " crofts "— very small rented farms with indefinite tenure used to raise various crops and animals, with kelping industry ( where men burned kelp for the ashes ), fishing, spinning of linen and military service as important sources of revenue.

Originally based on linen, this quickly moved to wool and factories multiplied, driving the growth of the town.

Brice Marden, Vine, 1992 – 93, oil on linen, 8 x 8. 5 feet, Museum of Modern Art, New York

All four Gospels state that, on the evening of the crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus, and that, after Pilate granted his request, he wrapped Jesus ' body in a linen cloth and laid it in a tomb.

Traditionally, American distillers focused on secondary filtration using charcoal, gravel, sand, or linen to remove undesired distillates.

The hole is plugged, and that end of the log is wrapped with a white linen cloth before the badnik is festively burned on the hearth.

Sampler worked by Catharine Ann Speel in silk on linen, 1805, Philadelphia

The tapestry consists of some fifty scenes with Latin tituli ( captions ), embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns.

The Bayeux tapestry is embroidered in wool yarn on a tabby-woven linen ground 68. 38 metres long and 0. 5 metres wide () and using two methods of stitching: outline or stem stitch for lettering and the outlines of figures, and couching or laid work for filling in figures.

In 1724 a linen backing cloth was sewn on comparatively crudely and, in around the year 1800, large ink numerals were written on the backing which broadly enumerate each scene and which are still commonly used for reference.

The " linen card " era lasted from about 1931 to the early 1950s, when cards were primarily printed on papers with a textured surface similar to linen cloth.

Bazalgette's capacity for hard work was remarkable ; every connection to the sewerage system by the various Vestry Councils had to be checked and Bazalgette did this himself and the records contain thousands of linen tracings with handwritten comments in Indian ink on them " Approved JWB " " I do not like 6 " used here and 9 " should be used.

The use of flax for the production of linen goes back at least to ancient Egyptian times.

High Wycombe remained a mill town through Medieval and Tudor times, with the manufacture of lace and linen cloth.

In previous times, a cloth of linen or richer material, called the Sudarium, was suspended from the crozier at the place where the bishop would grasp it.

The traditional form of the surplice in the Church of England survived from pre-Reformation times: a wide-sleeved, very full, plain, white linen tunic, pleated from the yoke, and reaching almost, or quite, to the feet.

The crossroads acted as a trading point for salt brought from Cheshire during medieval times proving to be one of the oldest trading routes in the area Along the High Street are a number of old weavers ' cottages ' These three-storey buildings supplied fine linen cloth to markets everywhere.

The first larnakes appeared in Minoan times during the Greek Bronze Age, when they took the form of a ceramic coffer designed to imitate a wooden chest, perhaps on the pattern of Egyptian linen chests.

Cruger was married three times, firstly in 1765 with a daughter of Samuel Peach of Tockington a wealthy linen draper and banker sources name her as Cristina, some say Ellin, some say Hannah.

During Tudor times, swaddling involved wrapping the new baby in linen bands from head to foot to ensure the baby would grow up without physical deformity.

At times he is depicted near a fountain putting a wet linen cloth on his breast.

Among the company's products was the manufacture of linen: in later times this was not an important product, but the company continued it for apparently historic reasons.

She has Makar find linen for her and begins to talk about various luxuries, leaving him alone in the end despite the fact that he was coming on to better times.

Its name, unlike what might be assumed, has nothing to do with linden trees, even though there is a " namesake " tree growing in the community (" Linden " is Linde – plural, Linden – in German ), but rather with linen ( Leinen ), which in earlier times was woven here.

The fair linen should be left on the altar at all times.

The linen also separates the celestial actions from the earthly, and possesses a peep-hole called " the door to heaven " that is opened and closed three times during the play to admit the aerial stage device.