The Textile Industry
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Title The Textile Industry
Url http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/008.html
Description Concise description of the textile industry as a family enterprise before the Industrial Revolution. Links to textile inventors, brief history of the cotton industry, and chronology of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. From The Open Door web site.
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Date Jul 19, 2006
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