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Article: y White Linen ...
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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y White Linen
The City Hall was built on the site of the former White Linen
Hall. The White Linen Hall, backed by the linen warehouses in the
linen quarter, had been the centre of the linen industry that helped
Belfast become a world-beater throughout the 19th and 20th
centuries. The scale of this industry was truly global. Irish white
linen became associated with fine dining, being used the world over
for tablecloths and napkins.
y The Bobbin
The linen industry was the first in Belfast to become mechanised
during our industrial revolution in the 1820s. The bobbin was an
essential part of this industry, produced in their tens of
thousands, and used in all looms. A bobbin is a spindle or ...