Linen, from the raw material to the finished product

When an industry like linen has attained the magnitude of third place in our textile industries, surely little apology is necessary in sending forth this little volume in the hope that thousands, who are as yet uninitiated in all the multitude of diverse processes which intervene between the pretty flax plant in the fields and the finished dainty cambric handkerchief in the hands of Her Majesty, the Queen of England, may find both interest and instruction. Cotton may have its probable limitation with regard to its users, but linen is universal and cosmopolitan, being found in some form or other alike in the cottage of the labourer and in the palace of the sovereign.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

INTRODUCTORY

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I - LINEN IN HISTORY

CHAPTER II - FOUNDATION OF IRISH LINEN TRADE

CHAPTER III - THE IRISH LINEN BOARD

CHAPTER IV - THE LINEN TRADE AS IT IS

CHAPTER V - THE RAW MATERIAL FLAX GROWING

CHAPTER VI - PREPARING THE FLAX

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