Linen industry - Scotland - Early works to 1800
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The Farther case of the woollen and silk manufacturers
Date: [1720]- E-books
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The case of the Convention of the Royal Boroughs in Scotland in relation to the linnen-manufactory of that country
Convention of Royal Burghs (Scotland)Date: [1720]- E-books
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A great number of the nobility and gentry having come to a resolution to encourage the wearing of home made linnen [sic] cloth, the Honourable Society for Improving in the Knowledge of Agriculture have advised the publishing of the following rules for propagating and dressing of lint and hemp, and for bleaching and whitning [sic] of linnen [sic] cloth
Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in ScotlandDate: 1726]- E-books
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The answer of the Scots linnen manufacturers to the report of the Lords Commissioners of trade and plantations and to a Paper falsly call'd, The Case of the Printing of Linnen in Great-Britain, &c. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Honorable House of Commons.
Date: 1720?]- E-books
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The Linen-merchant and manufacturer's complete assistant , Containing I. M'morn's table, correctly extended from 60 to 141 yards, and from 4d. to 1s. 6d. each yard, rising gradually 1 penny scots each table. II. Correct set of flax tables, from 5s. to 120s. the cwt. rising gradually 6d. each table-with abstracts of the most material acts of Parliament relative to the brown linen trade. III. Tables calucalated for sail cloth, from 1 to 1000 yards, and from 9d. to 2s. each yard, rising gradually 1 farthing each table IV. Yara tables from 1 to 1000 spyndles, and from 3s. to 10s. rising gradualy 1 penny. V. Tables of exchange or commission. VI. Warping tables. VII. A table of the weight and length necessary sot the different numbers of sail cloth. VIII. Income tables, &c.
Date: [1798?]