Transatlantic Threads: Scottish Linen and Society, C.1707-1780

by Sally Tuckett

Transatlantic Threads shows how studying the making, use and meaning of a relatively low-cost, utilitarian cloth like linen, broadens our understanding of eighteenth-century Scotland and the wider Atlantic world. Different types of linen cloth were used across society everyday: from fine shirts worn by the rich, to coarse aprons worn by labourers; from expensive bed sheets, to canvas used for ships' sails. Eighteenth-century linen production...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474492991
• ISBN13: 9781474492997
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages