Textiles 1
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- Created on: 16-06-22 16:59
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- Textiles
- Growth of Linen
- Irish linen was high quality, meant high demand
- important + profitable industry
- Cottage Industry
- Hand weaving at home allowed small farmers to gain more income
- By 1820
- Belfast produced the majority of Linen in Ireland
- After 1825
- Linenopolis
- Belfast grew in size and population due to linen's success
- Development of wet-spinning
- Drove the industry
- Faster, larger qualities
- Made linen more profitable than cotton
- Linenopolis
- Belfast transformed: from small market town to the country's most industrialised centre
- Stock market crash and commercial crisis:
- Ulster's textiles industry became dependant on linen
- Irish linen was high quality, meant high demand
- Pre-industrialisation
- Employed large portion of Ulster: important, profitable sector
- Cotton & Wool
- 1770 traiffs by Irish parliament
- Wool & cotton growth
- 50k people employed in cotton
- 1770 traiffs by Irish parliament
- Linen
- 1820s British trad routes well-established, but Ireland's internal transport caused delays
- eg: Belfast - Liverpool
- Used fast, expensive steamships across channel
- Delays in Ireland lead to calls for investment into transport
- 1820s British trad routes well-established, but Ireland's internal transport caused delays
- Relied on textiles (cotton, wool, linen)
- Decline of cotton 1825
- Cotton pre-1825 contributed sig to their econ
- Protection of industry by Brit gov meant market florished
- Protection removed 1824
- Protection of industry by Brit gov meant market florished
- Cotton mill owners saw the benefit of linen industry and that there was less competition, and so switched + removed investments
- 1825 stock market crash permantently damaged cotton and unemployment rose
- 1850: 4/19 mills remained in Ulster
- Cotton pre-1825 contributed sig to their econ
- Decline of wool
- Commercial crisis
- Britain protected its wool industry
- Increased competition
- Small Irish industry suffered
- Increased competition
- Britain protected its wool industry
- Competition from other countries
- Ireland no longer dominated their domestic market
- Used new technology (steam peered looms)
- More productive than Ulster's hand-loom weaving
- Lower prices
- Commercial crisis
- Growth of Linen
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