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The Textile Industry
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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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Blackburn, Cotton and the Industrial Revolution
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The history of Blackburn, UK, as it developed from a small market town in the 16th century, to one of the most important textile weaving centers in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Author: S. Lassey.
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Whole Cloth
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Web version of an educational project, aimed at widening public understanding of the development of the American textile industry. Extensive essays, illustrations and history resources on the industrialization of textile manufacturing, cloth dyeing techniques and fibers.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Description, historic development and current situation of sweatshops, of which those related to the textile industry are the most notorious. Links to related sites. Authors: Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein.
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Flax Spinning
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Article about the history of flax. Characterization, cultivation, processing and spinning of flax, from 6000 BCE till the present age. From the Kingdom of Ealdormere. Author: Ercadh Padraic.
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