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

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

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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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Contribution to the early history of textile technics. (Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1926), by Elisabeth Siewertsz van Reesema and Elizabeth Nierstrasz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The fabric buyer and the golden fleece. (Hart, Schaffner & Marx, 1928), by Alexander M. Levy, M. D. C. Crawford, and Schaffner & Marx Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Textrinum antiquorum : an account of the art of weaving among the ancients ... (Taylor and Walton, 1843), by James Yates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les arts du tissu (H. Laurens, 1909), by Gaston Migeon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed (J.S. Lawrence, 1912), by Perry Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altägyptische webestühle und brettchenweberei in Altägypten. (J. C. Hinrichs, 1924), by C. H. Johl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Painted and printed fabrics, the history of the manufactory at Jouy and other ateliers in France 1760-1815 (New York, 1927), by Henri Clouzot, Frances Morris, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed (Walton Advertising and Printing, 1925), by Perry Walton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les arts du tissu (H. Laurens, 1929), by Gaston Migeon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 5,000 years of fibers and fabrics (The Brooklyn museum, The Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, 1946), by Brooklyn Museum and M. D. C. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Textiles and costumes among the peoples of the ancient Near east (J.C. Hinrichs;, 1923), by Henry Frederick Lutz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte des Kunstgewerbes in Einzeldarstellungen (G. Freytag, 1885), by Hugo Blümner and Otto von Schorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'habillement et de la parure (F. Alcan, 1904), by Louis Bourdeau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances : including observations on spinning, dyeing, and weaving. Also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts. (Harper & brothers, 1845), by Clinton G Gilroy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Kleidung und Geweben von der Entwicklung und den Rohstoffen der menschlichen Bekleidung. (Kosmos, 1923), by Hans Wolfgang Behm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed (J. S. Lawrence, 1912), by Perry Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alte stoffe, ein leitfaden für sammler und liebhaber (R. C. Schmidt & co., 1917), by Paul Schulze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pastoral life and manufactures of the ancients : embracing an account of their social state, and attainments in the domestic arts, including spinning, dyeing, weaving, tapestry, lace, and embroidery; also, their jeweled garments, and fabrics of gold, purple, scarlet, silver, &c. &c. ; with appendices on felting, on Babylonish garments, shawls, and quilts; on Persian gold lace and jewelry; on paper; on netting; on hunting, fishing, &c. (Printed for the proprietor by Wm H. Starr, 1868), by Clinton G. Gilroy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's [sic] Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources (Printed for the author, 1873), by Practical Manufacturer and James Yates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spinnen, Färben, Weben, Walken (Mayer & Müller, 1894), by Paul Rieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Musée historique des tissus de la Chambre de commerce de Lyon : précis historique de l'art de décorer les étoffes et catalogue sommaire (A. Rey, 1902), by Lyon (France). Chambre de commerce. Musée historique des tissus and Raymond Cox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les arts du tissu : étoffes - tapisseries - broderies -dentelles - reliures (Bibliothèque de la Gazette des beaux-arts :, 1890), by Alfred de Champeaux (page images at HathiTrust)

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