The Linen Trade : Ancient and Modern (Paperback)

Part 1 The raw material: flax culture; hemp culture; jute culture; sunn culture; various fibres. Part 2 Ancient linen: Bible linen; Egyptian linen; Phoenician linen; Carthagenian and Babylonian linen; Colchican linen; Grecian linen; Roman linen. Part 3 The linen manufactures of the olden time. Part 4 Modern linen: continental linen - Italian linen, Spanish linen, German linen, Austrian linen, Dutch linen, Belgian linen, French linen, Russian linen, various countries; the United Kingdom -English linen, Irish linen, Scotch linen, United Kingdom. Part 5 Manufacturing operations: flax-spinning; linen weaving; linen bleaching; appendix.