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13:00 - 14:00, Thursday 19 August
Join Dr Vivienne Pollock, Curator of History as she looks at the growth and development of the linen industry in Belfast.
From its roots in the local cotton industry of the early 1800s and the move from hand to factory production of cloth and fibre, to the emergence of Belfast in the early 1900s as the most famous and prolific producer of linen products in the world.
Held as part of August Craft Month.
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