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Irish Linen Guild is a promotional organization of the Irish linen industry that was founded in 1928. [1] The Guild's main role is to promote Irish linen in national and international markets, through its website. The guild's brand's trademark is the focus of all promotional activities.
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Irish linen (Irish: Línéadach Éireannach [1]) is the name given to linen produced in Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). Linen is cloth woven from, or yarn spun from, flax fibre , which was grown in Ireland for many years before advanced agricultural methods and more suitable climate led to the ...
A shillelagh (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ l eɪ l i,-l ə / shil-AY-lee, -lə; Irish: sail éille or saill éalaigh [1] [ˌsˠal̠ʲ ˈeːlʲə], "thonged willow") is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top. It is associated with Ireland and Irish folklore.
Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen is the last remaining of the old established Irish linen Jacquard weavers in Ireland. Situated in Banbridge , Northern Ireland it has been weaving since 1854. The Company, bears the name of its founder, Thomas Ferguson (1820–1900), who was born at Clare, near the village of Waringstown in County Down .
John Grubb Richardson (13 November 1813 – 1891) was an Irish linen merchant, industrialist and philanthropist who founded the model village of Bessbrook near Newry in 1845, in what is now Northern Ireland. [1]
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The Living Linen Project was set up in 1995 as an oral archive of the knowledge of the Irish linen industry still available within a nucleus of people who were formerly working in the industry in Ulster. [1] For over three hundred years linen manufacture has been an important industry, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.