Irish textile workers folding and starching linen at a Belfast linen manufacturers.

Merchant & Makers exclusive interview with 31 Chapel Lane, producers of Irish linen goods; exploring Irish linen, an ancient cloth with a mythical history.

Northern Irish Linen | Envoy of Belfast

Merchant & Makers exclusive interview with 31 Chapel Lane, producers of Irish linen goods; exploring Irish linen, an ancient cloth with a mythical history.

Merchant & Makers exclusive interview with 31 Chapel Lane, producers of Irish linen goods; exploring Irish linen, an ancient cloth with a mythical history.

Merchant & Makers exclusive interview with 31 Chapel Lane, producers of Irish linen goods; exploring Irish linen, an ancient cloth with a mythical history.

This is a very rare advert published in 1905 for The "Old Bleach" Company, Randalstown, Ireland. They were famous throughout the world for their great quality Irish Linen, royalty were among their many customers, and I believe their linen was used on the ill-fated Titanic.

Northern Irish Linen | Envoy of Belfast

Merchant & Makers exclusive interview with 31 Chapel Lane, producers of Irish linen goods; exploring Irish linen, an ancient cloth with a mythical history.

Derelict factory building part of The Old Bleach Spinning Mill situated on the east bank of the River Maine.

Merchant & Makers exclusive interview with 31 Chapel Lane, producers of Irish linen goods; exploring Irish linen, an ancient cloth with a mythical history.