Introduction Birth of Linen When Pre-Historic man decided that fur and skins were no longer the height of fashion, he turned to the fibers of the flax plant to create the first ever fabric. However, it was probably the Egyptians who first organised the industrial production of linen, recognising it as a noble fabric. Linen became a luxury worn by royal households and other aristocracy. Linen probably came to Ireland in early Christian times. It was the Irish, who populerised linen world over and St. Patrik, the patron Saint or Ireland, is said to be buried in a shourd of Linen. The production of Linen continued through the Middle Ages, but is was not untile the 17th Century that the industry started to develop in a structured way, initially under the guidance of the Earl Stafford and the Duke of Ormonde. In 1949 Jaya Shree Textiles, an Unit of Indian Rayon and Industries Ltd., The Aditya Birla Group Company took the first initiative to bring this nature’s gift spinning into world class weaving and finishing plant. The yarn is spun, woven and processed by importing French and Belgian Flax fibre. The plant is still the only facility for linen spinning in the sub-continent with state-of-the-art-technology.