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Transatlantic Threads

Scottish Linen and Society, c.1707-1780

AvSally Tuckett

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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 was a Scottish economic success story, with thousands of people working to produce millions of yards of yarn and woven cloth. It was also how Scots became inextricably linked with transatlantic trade and the slavery economy, as the desire to capture the colonial market was a key driver for developing coarse linen production. Using a material commodity to explore everyday experiences of ordinary people, particularly women, non-elite and enslaved people, Transatlantic Threads examines the cultural and social significance of linen in Scottish and transatlantic society.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Histories of the Scottish Atlantic
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474493000

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Sally Tuckett is Lecturer in Dress and Textile Histories at the University of Glasgow. She is co-author (with Stana Nenadic) of Colouring the Nation: The Turkey Red Printed Cotton Industry in Scotland, c.1840-1940 (2013, National Museums of Scotland) and has published articles in Scottish Historical Review, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies and Textile History. Sally was awarded a Research Incentive Grant from the Carnegie Trust for Transatlantic Threads and is currently working on an AHRC funded project, ‘Fleece to Fashion: Economies and Cultures of Craft in Scotland, Knitted Textiles c.1780-present’.

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Transatlantic Threads offers an innovative analysis of the role of linen in eighteenth-century Scottish society and the Atlantic economy. By focusing on coarse linen, Sally Tuckett imaginatively brings together dress, economic and social history, and the study of slavery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. She shows how linen was the fibre and fabric of choice for young and old, free and enslaved, linking Scotland to a wider British imperial remit.

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AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNote on LanguageList of IllustrationsMapsTablesIntroduction: The Making, Movement and Meaning of Linen1. Linen in Scottish Society2. Cloth, Control and Commerce3. The British Linen Company and the Transatlantic Trade4. Linen and the Atlantic5. Scottish Cloth and Enslaved People in the Chesapeake6. Material MeaningsConclusion: The Legacies of Scottish LinenAppendix I: Stamped Linen, 1728-1780Appendix II: Cargo of the Dove, 1742Appendix III: Suppliers and Manufacturers for the DoveGlossaryBibliographyIndex