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Ch4 Looming Large

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Sharing Cultures

   

Linen is perhaps the worlds oldest textile and is derived from varieties of the Flax plant.

Here we take you on a sensory journey, describing the growing cycle, relaying the traditional stages of production and illustrating how this textile is manufactured today using sight, sound, smell and touch. With image, song, scent bottle and touch tray, we pick up the threads of cultural union that tie Scotland into Europe from plant to product.

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Ch4 Looming Large

Display Sharing Material Culture

The story of the linen industry’s move from being a cottage industry, into factories

From the 1780s onwards, the Industrial Revolution began to change the face of the linen industry across Europe. What was once literally a cottage industry began to be replaced by linen factories.

During this period of industrialisation men lost their jobs in the linen industry, and women were paid one fifth of the wage they had previously been receiving.

Below you can see some of the artefacts we have on display in this section of the exhibition.

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Hand Punch Cards – Hand loom punch cards from hand-operated hole punch device, offered for exhibition by Lisburn Museum

 

Damask point chart originating from Dumfermline

Point Chart – Damask point chart originating from Dumfermline, offered for exhibition by Fiona McKelvie of McBurnie and Black

 

Digital Punch Cards, Industrial Loom 20 field general purpose punch cards

Machine Punch Cards – Industrial loom 20 field general purpose punch cards offered for exhibition by Brenda Collins

 

Art of Weaving,Book by Alex Brown.

Art of Weaving – Book by Alex Brown. ‘A Practical Treatise of the Construction of the Power-loom and the Art of Weaving’ Pub. James P. Mathew & Co. Offered for exhibition by Angus Maclean

 

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

Ch4 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

Linen stories
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