Eksempler på linen

• The re-exports were generally of colonially produced food-stuffs - tobacco, coffee, sugar, rice and tea - although various manufactured calicoes, linens and silks were also re-exported.

• On this should be placed white linens, a glass of water, a monstrance, and candles.

• The purchase and use of linens and cottons, along with regular laundering, became a normal facet of dress among all but the very poor.

• Moreover, these linens declined in price over the long eighteenth century, long before the first industrial mills went into action.#!

• Gone now is the stylized shroud, for here we see a naturalistic figure, almost a portrait, wrapped in a very convincing linen sheet.

• The quality of the linen varied among the social ranks.

• Most of the labourers also wove linen for him.

• There is no trace of a cartoon remaining on the linen and no evidence of what form an original design might have taken.

• Dispensing with fermentation saved time and money - less linen was lost and more ended up as the substance of sheets.

• There is a frequent laundry collection at the hotel, which suggests that all linen is changed on a daily basis.

• The paupers confined in hospitals and almshouses were often obliged to wear institutional clothing which was made from coarse cloths, linen and hemp.

• The monks wore coarse linen habits which surely blended harmoniously with the surrounding natural tones.

• Here the number of male weavers - mostly of linen - had declined, and this presumably led to the loss of employment in spinning.

• Most clothes were of woven wool or linen, and the richest people even had silk garments.

• The cotton and linen industries developed both putting-out structures and artisan industry, and soon the most widespread and rapid transition to factory production.