Trading Places/CR.E.A.T.E. Programme
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Glossary of Terms & Phrases
Here is an alphabetical (A-Z) list of 25 terms used throughout this site relating to the history of linen in ireland.
Artists, historians, teachers and young people can add in new terms as needed, and link to them from their articles posted on this site.
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- acetate
- beetled
- bleaching
- blind drawing
- block printing
- Cootehill linen market
- cottage industry
- First and Second World Wars
- flax hole
- Great Famine
- hackler
- hanks
- Huguenot
- Lagan Valley
- local bleach green
- Louis Crommelin
- Plantation of Ulster
- projection
- retted
- scutching
- shous
- spinner
- weaver
- Weddings
- Williamite wars
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