Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from 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 ?ax 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: In this work I have endeavoured to give a popular and just technical enough not to be beyond the depths Of common understanding - description Of the linen manufacturing system in all its phases. It has been necessary in doing so to dip back somewhat into the past, but these chapters in the evolution of a highly important industry have not been dealt with in any dreary fashion, as bygone history too often is, but rather that the reader will get a good grasp Of the foundations and/ evolution of the trade.
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