Ebook: The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster

The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The origins of the linen industry in north Armagh and the Lagan valley; 3 Drapers and bleachers in the early Ulster linen industry; 4 The market book of Thomas Greer, a Dungannon linendraper, 1758-9; 5 The linen industry portrayed in the Hincks prints of 1783; 6 Ulster landowners and the linen industry; 7 The political economy of linen: Ulster in the eighteenth century; 8 The 'linen triangle' in the 1790s; 9 Women in the domestic linen industry.;The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals. Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms and improve marginal land. Continual improvements by Ulster bleachers in the finishing of linens secured for them control of the industry, focussing its development. Exports to Britai.