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1893 Chicago Exhibition: Catalogue: Group 102

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Note: This is a sub-section of 1893 Chicago Exhibition: Catalogue.

GROUP CII.

Yarns and Woven Goods of Cotton, Linen and other Vegetable Fibres.


379 Barbour & Sons, Limited, William, Lisburn, Ireland. Linen threads for tailors and shoemakers (hand and machine sewing), linen yarns; linen lace threads and flax embroidery threads ; fishing threads and nets.

380 Barlow & Jones, Ltd., 2 Portland Street, Manchester; and Albert Mills, Cobden Mills, Egyptian Mills, Prospect Mills, Polton. [See Advt.] Counterpanes (bedspreads), toilet covers, bureau covers, tidies, white, coloured, hand-printed, and hand-embroidered, cotton and linen Turkish and other fancy towels and hath sheets, plain and figured, piques, white and coloured, flannel-hack piques, swans-downs, flannelettes, linings, dimities and damasks, white and printed, sheets and sheetings. (See also Complimentary List, page xxxiii.)

381 Behrens & Sons, Sir Jacob, 36 Princess Street, Manchester. Cotton yarns suitable for manufacture of all cotton, wool and silk fabrics.

382 Brookfield Linen Co., Limited, Belfast. Linen and tow yarns; interlinings, diapers, huckabacks, handkerchiefs, rollerings, towels, damasks, napkins, buckrams, canvas, paddings, coating dress mantle and shirting linens, drills, ducks, furniture coverings, creas, platillas, silesias.

383 Brown & Son, John, 111 French Street, Glasgow. [See Advt.] Madras and Crete muslins, figured and plain hook muslins, frilled muslin curtains.

384 Brown & Sons, John S., 12 Bedford Street, Belfast, and 116 Franklin Street, New York. [See Advt.] Table and household linens, sheetings, huckabacks, towels, handkerchiefs. (See also Complimentary List, page xxxiii.)

385 Crippin, William, & Young, George, 48 Faulkner Street, Manchester. Cotton and wool yarn in the dyed and manufactured state.

386 Fenton, Connor and Co., Linen Hall, Belfast. Shirtings, sheetings, damasks, towellings, handkerchiefs, huckabacks, dowlas, crashes, canvases, and other linens, bleached and unbleached.

387 Ferguson Brothers, Holme Head Works, Carlisle; 39 Aldermanburg, London, E.C.; and 22 Princess Street, Manchester. Speciality tailors’ and dressmakers’ cotton linings, viz., dyed silesias and pocketings, dyed and printed sateens, silk striped sateens, perculines, dress sateens; fine shirtings, and other goods.

388 Finlayson, Bousfield and Co., Flax Mills, Johnstone, Scotland, and North Grafton, Mass. Selling Agents, J. B. Leeson & Co., Boston. [See Advt.] Linen threads of every description made from flax for machine and hand sewing, welt, sole and lockstitch threads of all kinds for the boot and shoe trade; saddlers’, bookbinders’, and carpet threads; linen, crochet and lace threads; rope floss, burganen, and flourishing threads of the most delicate shades for embroidery and art needlework; salmon net and gilling twines.

389 Fox & Son, Charles, Leeds, Yorkshire, and 15 Old Change, London, E.C. Sheetings, damasks, towelling, huckabacks, glass cloths, and other linen goods.

390 King & Son, John, 38 West George Street, Glasgow, [See Advt.] Scotch window hollands.

391 Liddell & Co., William, Upper Queen Street, Belfast; 6 Milk Buildings, London, E.C.; 18 White Street, New York. [See Advt.] Linen damasks, table cloths and napkins, towels, sheetings, pillow and shirting linens.

302 Matier & Co., Henry, Belfast, Ireland; and New York. [See Advt.] Linen and cambric handkerchiefs, linen damask and napkins, white linens.

393 Old Bleach Linen Co. (The), Randalslown, Co. Antrim, Ireland. Bordered towels witli hemstitched ends, damasks, diapers, embroidery, household and other linens.

394 Richardson, Sons, & Owden, Limited, J. N., Donegall Square North, Belfast; and 84, Franklin Street, New York. [See Advt.] Linen damask cloths and napkins, damask doylies, fronting linen and shirting linen, pillow linens, sheetings, pillow cases and pillow shams, sheets, handkerchiefs, plain and embroidered; glass cloths, towellings, huckabacks, and dyed linens.

395 [Robertson, Ledlie, Ferguson & Co., Limited, The Bank Buildings, Belfast. Royal table damask.

396 Swainson, Birley & Co,, Fishwick Mills, Preston; I Charlotte Street, Manchester; 5 Goldsmith Street, Wood Street, London; 21 Hope Street, Glasgow. [See Advt.] Long cloths, plain and fancy cotton dicss goods, sheetings.

397 Turnbull and Stockdale, Irwell Print Works, Stacksteads, near Manchester; 21 York Street, Manchester; and 231 Oxford Street, London. Machine and hand printed cretonnes and velveteens, designed by Lewis F. Day.


  • See laces, Group CVI.
  • Ardeshir & Byramji. See Indian Exhibits.
  • Bartrum, Harvey & Co. See Group CIU.
  • Belfast Ropework Co., Limited. See Group LXXXV.
  • Bhumgara & Co., F. P. See Indian Exhibits.
  • Cash, J. & J. See Group CVI.
  • Combe, Barbour, & Combe, Limited. See Group IX.
  • Houssein, M. D. See Indian Exhibits.
  • Irish Industries Association. See Group CIV.
  • Lewis & Sons, William. See Group CIV.
  • Shaw & Co., Jhoomuck. See Indian Exhibits.
  • Shaw, Chedee Lall. Sec Indian Exhibits.
  • Shaw, M. L. See Indian Exhibits.
  • Marwanjee & Co., P. See Indian Exhibits.
  • Tellery & Co., S. J. See Indian Exhibits.