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Trading People

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Creating Industry

LINEN and flax, the plant from which it is derived, have profoundly influenced the wealth of our nation, the geography of our country and our relationships within Europe. Our Linen Stories tell of economic migrancy, trade routes and transfers of technology, highlighting the development, demise and resurgence of this once vital Scottish industry and our links both helpful and rivalrous with our linen neighbours: Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Trading People

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Rough Linen, lesser quality thread and weave; Cuban

Linen remnant, Cuba, lesser quality thread and weave similar to Highland harn

 

Board of Agriculture, Trade, Manufactures and Fisheries – Edinburgh – Pamphlet cover.

Courtesy of National Records of Scotland

 

Stories and Exhibits

- an evolving collection of linen stories and related artefacts

Creating Industry

Capital Migration

Trading Places

Banking Notes

Trading People

Trains & Boats & Planes

Mapping Linen

Sharing Cultures

Industrious Fibres

Making Scents

Weaving Rhythm

Looming Large

Tools of the Trade

A Master at Work

Nurturing Design

Learning Curves

Patronage and Prizes

Soft Sell

Thinking Museums

The Right Type

Damask Design Tales

Sustaining Futures

Virtuous Circles

Arcadia

Emerging Markets

Sustaining Communities

Supply and Demand

Challenging Stuff

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