Examples of 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.