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• Linen industry -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800

• Coltivazione e governo del lino marzuolo : con dodici tavole in rame. (A spese di Domenico Bardella librajo sul corso, 1792), by Gio. Batt. Trecco and Domenico Bardella (page images at HathiTrust)

• A profitable method compiled for the benefit of all indigent people so effectually drawn into a modell, the like before has not been exposed to this our English-nation: wherein is particularized, the several orders and degrees, for the promotion of the linnen manufacture, as also the management and farther improvement of the said benificial exercise to the great encouragement of his Majesties distressed subjects, as likewise for the disburthening the charge of parishes throughout the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, viz. His most Excellent Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, by R. H. ([[London] : With allowance, London printed for D.M., 1679]), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Particular grieuances of those His Maiesties subiects throughout England and Wales, which lye vnder the oppression of George Woods patent for the sole printing vpon linnen cloth ([London : W. Stansby, 1621]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Articles of agreement, concluded, made, and agreed on this twenty eight day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand six hundred ninety and four, between the royal free burrows, cities, and others of their Majesties antient kingdom of Scotland, who shall be pleased to subscribe, and be concerned in the Scots linen-subscription-book, for the linen-manufacture in that kingdom of the one part; and Nicolas Dupin of the city of London Esquire, in trust for the members and subscribers who shall be hereafter pleased to subscribe, and be concerned in the aforesaid linen-manufacture in England, of the other part. ([London : s.n., 1694]), by Nicholas Dupin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proposals by the governour and assistants of the King and Queen's corporation, for encouraging and carrying on the linnen manufacture in England. ([London] : The proposals are to be had at Mr. Nicholas Dwpin [sic] esquire at the said Salisbury Exchange, gratis., [1690?]), by Nicholas Dupin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1688-08-15 (Edinburgh : printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1688), by Council of Trade (Scotland) and King of England James II (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered for taking off the additional duty, laid on East-Country linnen, by the last act of Parliament, ... ([London? : s.n., 1695?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An humble representation to the honourable the commons of England assembled in Parliament, in relation to the importation of sail cloath from Holland. ([London : s.n., between 1696 and 1713]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Advertisement this is to give notice, that the Lord Bishop of London and other charitable persons, having raised a stock to set the poor French Protestants at work on a linnen manufacture at Ipswich : there is made by them such cloth both ordinary and extraordinary fine proper for sheeting, shifts, half-shirts, bands, handkercheifs [sic] and other uses ... to be seen and sold at the house of Thomas Papillon Esq. in Fanchurchstreet near Billiter-lane in London ... ([London : s.n., 1683]), by Thomas Papillon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter from a merchant in Scotland, to his correspondent in London. Relating to the duty upon Scotch-linnen. ([Edinburgh : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An abstract of His Maiesties letters pattents graunted to George Wood, for the sole printing of lynnen-cloath as followeth ([London : W. Jones, [1619]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and James 1566-1625 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Act for burying in Scots linen, June 14, 1686. ([Edinburgh], : Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson ..., 1687), by Scotland. Convention of Estates (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Articles of agreement, concluded, made, and agreed on this twenty eight day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand six hundred ninety and four, between the royal free burrows, cities, and others of their Majesties antient kingdom of Scotland, who shall be pleased to subscribe, and be concerned in the Scots linen-subscription-book, for the linen-manufacture in that kingdom of the one part; and Nicolas Dupin of the city of London Esquire, in trust for the members and subscribers who shall be hereafter pleased to subscribe, and be concerned in the aforesaid linen-manufacture in England, of the other part. ([London : s.n., 1694]), by Nicholas Dupin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Overture regulating the breadth and length of linnen. To His Grace James Duke of Queensberry Marquis of Dumfries-Shire, Earl of Drumlanrick, and Sancher, &c. His Majesty's High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland, and most honourable Estates of Parliament. (Edinburgh : Printed by John Reid, 1700), by James Donaldson and James Douglas Queensberry (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1688-08-15 (Edinburgh : printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1688), by Council of Trade (Scotland) and King of England James II (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter from a merchant in Scotland, to his correspondent in London. Relating to the duty upon Scotch-linnen. ([Edinburgh : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Anno Regni decimo tertio Gerogii Secundi Regis (Printed by George Grierson, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1740), by Ireland, George Grierson, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anno Regni vicesimo tertio & quarto Georgii III Regis. Chap. XII, An act for the issuing treasury bills to the amount therein mentioned, for the purpose of promoting manufactures by providing for the settlement of a number of industrious manufacturers at Prosperous in the county of Kildare (Printed by the executors of David Hay, assignee of the late Boulter Grierson, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1784), by Ireland, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III), and Executors of David Hay (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Story of the textile arts (Educational Publishing Company, 1912), by Edith Very (page images at HathiTrust)
• The linen trade, ancient and modern (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1867), by Alex J. Warden and Green Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrie linière (Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole, Lacroix et Baudry, 1859), by Théodore Mâreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proclamations. 1688-08-15 (Edinburgh : printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1688), by Council of Trade (Scotland) and James King of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The merchant's ware-house laid open: or, the plain dealing linnen-draper: Shewing how to buy all sorts of linnen and Indian goods: wherein is perfect and plain instructions, for all sorts of persons, that they may not be deceived in any sort of linnen they want. Useful for linnen drapers, and their country chapmen, for semstresses, and in general for all persons whatsoever. Whereunto is added, the art of cutting out shifts, so that you may save a quarter of an ell, in cutting out one shift, and [ ]et cut it as long and large, as others [ ]ail out of a quarter more. A work [n]ever before attempted. Dedicated to her royal highness the Princess Ann of Denmark. By J. F. (London : printed for John Sprint at the Bell, and Geo. Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little Britain, 1696), by J. F. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Histoire de l'industrie linière en France (Imprimerie & Librairie Camille Robbe, 1902), by Alfred Renouard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The several acts for the improvement of the hempen and flaxen manufactures in this kingdom. (Printed by Andrew Crooke, 1722), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bessbrook and Its Linen Mills: A Short Narrative of a Model Temperance Town, by J. Ewing Ritchie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Proclamations. 1688-08-15 (Edinburgh : printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to his most sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1688), by Council of Trade (Scotland) and James King of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The linen trade, ancient and modern (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1867), by Alex J. Warden and Green Longman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Committee of inquiry into the conditions of employment in the linen and other making-up trades of the north of Ireland. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1912), by &c. Inquiry Committee Great Britain. Irish Linen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A proclamation for publishing an act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the Advancement of the Trade of Linen Manufacture, and for remitting the penalties thereby incurred, and for inlarging several periods of time in the said act contained by the Lord Lieutenant and Council. (Dublin : Printed by John Crook ... and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer ..., 1666), by Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1661-1669 : Ormonde) and James Butler Ormonde (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Code of fair competition for the linen industry : as submitted on August 30, 1933. (Supt. of Documents, 1933), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Linen importing trade (United States Government Printing Office, 1934), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Industry & frugality proposed as the surest means to make us a rich and flourishing people and the linen manufacture recommended as tending to promote these among us : with some cursory reflexions on charity, so far as it regards our distributions to the poor. (Printed by T. Fleet, 1753) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cedula real, de franquicias, concedidas por la Magestad del Rey Nuestro Señor Don Fernando Sexto ... a el arte mayor de la seda, mercaderes de escriptorio, maestros de passamanería, torcedores, y tintoreros de la Ciudad de Toledo, su fecha, quince de Junio de 1747 ([s.l.], 1748), by España. Rey (1746-1759: Fernando VI) and Colegio Menor de Málaga (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle porpore e delle materie vestiarie presso gli antichi : dissertazione epistolare (Dalla Stamperia ducale, 1786), by Michele Rosa, Francesco Rosaspina, and Italy) Stamperia Ducale (Modena (page images at HathiTrust)

• Experiments on bleaching (Printed by Sands, Donaldson, Murray, & Cochran, for A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1756), by Francis Home, Alexander Donaldson, and Alexander Kincaid (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'art de faire les Indiennes : et de composer les plus belles couleurs, bon teint, à cet usage, de peindre les étosses de soie, & en miniature : de laver les desseins, plans, cartes géographiques &c. : de teindre le bois, la paille, le crin, les fleurs artificielles, &c. : avec plusieurs secrets pour faire toute sorte de couleurs qui n'altérent point les étosses & qui sont à l'épreuve du grand air & due soleil (Chez les libraires associés, 1786), by M. Delormois (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studio delle virtuose dame : Roma, Antonio Facchetti, 1597 (London : Bernard Quaritch, 1884., 1884), by Elisabetta Catanea Parasole (page images at HathiTrust)
• New and singular patternes & workes of linnen. Seruing for paternes to make all sortes of lace, edginges, and cut-workes. : Newly inuented for the profite & contentment of ladies, gentlewomen, & others, that are desirous of this arte.. (London : Jmprinted by J. Wolfe and Ed. White., 1591.), by Federico de Vinciolo (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Douzième. Soierie (s.n., in the 18th century) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le dessinateur pour les fabriques d'etoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie : avec la traduction de six tables raisonnées, tirées de l'Abecedario pittorico, imprimé à Naples en 1733 (Chez la veuve Duchesne ..., 1774), by Joubert de l'Hiberderie and Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'art de faire les Indiennes : et de composer les plus belles couleurs, bon teint, à cet usage, de peindre les étosses de soie, & en miniature : de laver les desseins, plans, cartes géographiques &c. : de teindre le bois, la paille, le crin, les fleurs artificielles, &c. : avec plusieurs secrets pour faire toute sorte de couleurs qui n'altérent point les étosses & qui sont à l'épreuve du grand air & due soleil (Chez les libraires associés, 1786), by M. Delormois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau teinturier parfait (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du roi ..., 1769), by M. Delormois and Charles-Antoine Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)

• An essay on the East-India-trade by the author of The essay upon wayes and means. (London : [s.n.], 1696), by Charles Davenant (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The linnen and woollen manufactory discoursed with the nature of companies and trade in general: and particularly, that of the company's for the linnen manufactory of England and Ireland. With some reflections how the trade of Ireland hath formerly, and may now affect England. Printed at the request of a peer of this realm. (London : printed, and are to be sold by Thomas Mercer, at the Half-Moon joining the east-corner of the Royal Exchange, Cornhil, 1691) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered against the passing of a bill, intituled, A bill for regulating and encouraging the art of weaving. ([London : s.n., 1695?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons against the prohibiting the wearing of East-India and Persia wrought silks, bengals, dyed and printed callicoes, &c. in England, humbly offered to the consideration of the Honourable House fo Commons. ([London? : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons for passing the Turky companies bill, to discourage the great importations of thrown silk. ([London : s.n., 1690]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A reply to a paper, intituled, Reasons against the prohibiting the wearing East-India and Persian wrought silks, &c. humbly offer'd to the Honourable House fo Commons. ([London? : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to Mr. Cary's reply, &c. ([London : s.n., 1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to the most material objections made by the Linnen-Drapers, against the bill which restrains the wearing East-India wrought silks, &c. in England; humbly submitted to the consideration of the most honourable House of Lords. ([London : s.n., 1699?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Answer to the reasons against the wearing of East-India and Persia wrought silks, bengalls, dyed and printed callicoes in England. ([London? : s.n., 1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Querical demonstrations, writ by Prince Butler, author of the eleven queries relating to the bill for prohibiting East-India silks and printed callicoes. ([London : s.n., 1699?]), by Prince Butler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the bailiffs, wardens, assistants, and commonalty of the Company of Weavers London, truly stated. Humbly submitted to the judgement of the Parliament, for the exempting themselves out of the bill, for heavy dyed silk. ([London : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the manufacturers of grograin [sic] yarn. ([London : s.n., 1695?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the weavers, who are petioners, [sic] to be relieved against a clause in the coale act. ([London : s.n., 1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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