Sentence examples for linen industry from inspiring English sources

Upstream the waterpower from the river played an important part in the industrialization of the Ulster linen industry.

Lurgan has historically been an industrial town in which the linen industry predominated as a source of employment during the Industrial Revolution, and is said to have employed as many as 18,000 handloom weavers at the end of the 19th century, a figure significantly higher than the town's resident population at the time.

Aside from the development of the linen industry, Ireland was largely passed over by the industrial revolution, partly because it lacked coal and iron resources and partly because of the impact of the sudden union with the structurally superior economy of England, which saw Ireland as a source of agricultural produce and capital.

But Ireland's dormant linen industry is stirring.

Derry was known for its linen industry, not its mines.

Flax is the main crop and the basis for the local linen industry.

During the 12th century colonies of Flemings established wool and linen industries in Angus, and the county consequently enjoyed a prosperity that survived the Scottish Wars of Independence in the early 14th century.

Situated on the River Dearne, a tributary of the Don, Barnsley is an old market town and had early wire-drawing and linen industries, but its major growth came in the 19th century as a coal-mining town in the heart of the Yorkshire coalfield.

In 1774, the British government passed an act outlawing the export of "tools or utensils" used in the cotton and linen industries.

By the end of the 17th century, linen manufacture, which is still the chief industry, was established.

Chartered in 1190, Kortrijk reached its peak in the Middle Ages as a centre of the linen damask industry.