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• Background history of Linen from the flax in the field to finished linen cloth

  From the Craigavon Historical Society.

• British History Online - Industries: Silk-weaving

• FamilySearch Wiki - England Textile Occupations Silk, Cotton, Weaving (National Institute)

• History of Irish Linen

• How War Revolutionized Ireland’s Linen Industry | JSTOR Daily

• Industries of Scotland - Linen and Jute Manufacturers

• JSTOR - Contract Work in the Paterson, N.J., Silk Industry

  Journal article describing the silk industry in Paterson, New Jersey

• JSTOR - The English Silk Industry in the Eighteenth Century

• Our Warwickshire - Former Silk Ribbon-Weaving Factory In Coventry

• Passaic County Historical Society - Immigrants at the Paterson Silk Mills

  Article from the society's newsletter discussing immigrants from Europe who worked in Paterson's silk mills

• Project Gutenberg's Theory Of Silk Weaving, by Arnold Wolfensberger

  Article describing the different kinds of weaves used to make silk

• Silk Ribbon Weaving in Coventry

  A brief history.

• Social Welfare History Project - Paterson Silk Strike, 1913

• Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society - Silk Ribbon Industry

• Weavers and freemen in Coventry, 1820-1861 : social and political traditionalism in an early Victorian town

  A PhD thesis by Peter Searby at University of Warwick.