Lint & Linen: The Linen Industry in Ulster

Synopsis: This DVD deals with the flax industry in Ulster in the 1940s and 1950s. It looks at the complete year of flax production, including sowing, pulling, dam retting, stooking, scutching, beetling, spinning and weaving. For over 250 years farmers all around Ireland grew flax and Irish linen label became a symbol of wealth and prosperity. By the end of the 1950’s the man-made fibre industry began to spell the end of the flax growing and by the end of that decade it had failed to exist completely in this area of Northern Ireland. This DVD follows the process of Tom Stewart who attempts to recreate the past by growing two and a half acres of flax and, by following the original process, turning it into an Irish linen tablecloth.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Subjects: Agriculture; History
Keywords: crops; industrial archaeology; manufacturing technology; textile industries; Ulster

Name: John Thompson Video Productions
Email: john@thompsontrading.co.uk
Phone: 0044 28 295 58688
Address: Irish History DVD Productions
159 Main Street
Garvagh
Co Derry
BT51 5NH
Northern Ireland

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