The Irish Linen Guild acts to maintain high standards within the industry and only companies producing the highest quality Irish Linen products are authorised to use its coveted trademark.

Ulster Weavers is the one of the largest linen manfacturers (taking charge of every process in linen manufacturing from raw state to final outcome of their products) in Northern Ireland. Visitors are welcome at their shop in The Linen Green, where they can purchase quality linen & damask in the extensive gift store. A wide selection of Irish linen products ranging from table cloths to bed sheets, handkerchiefs to Christening robes, are also available at The Linen Chest, Mill Street, Newtownards.

The Irish Linen Centre at Lisburn Museum houses a major exhibition of the history of Irish Linen. A highlight is the hand loom weaving workshop where skilled hand loom weavers produce the Centre’s own linen on restored 19th century looms. The innovative use of audio-visual techniques brings the past very much to life and allows visitors to experience life in a working mill one hundred years ago.

The Linen Homelands, an initiative backed by the local councils of Banbridge, Lisburn and Craigavon also promotes the historical significance of linen to Northern Ireland. The tourism project aims to inform visitors who wish to experience at first hand the delights of the age old processes of Irish Linen manufacture.

The Linen Homelands Tour guides the visitor through the intricacies of the prosperous past and its buoyant future, across the land encompassed by Banbridge, Craigavon and Lisburn. A map-leaflet produced for The Linen Trail, available from the offices of those three councils along with details of tour times and dates, shows a countryside dotted with scutching, spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling enterprises, many surviving, others poignant ruins, memorials to an ambitious past.

Across the Province, in Tyrone the Benburb Valley Heritage Centre is set in a fascinating, preserved linen mill. Not far off is Wellbrook Beetling Mill near Cookstown.