Whole Cloth
Link ID 120121
Title Whole Cloth
Url http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/
Description 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.
Category Textiles and Nonwovens > Resources > History > Industry
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Date Jul 19, 2006
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1. The Symbiosis of Towns and Textiles
  Extensive working paper on the effects of urbanization of the textile industry on cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England between 1280 and 1570 CE. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract, and full text on PDF document.
Category:   Textiles and Nonwovens > Resources > History > Industry


2. Cotton Mill and Textile History Guide
  Extensive historical information on past and present cotton yarn spinning and fabric weaving mills of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, USA. Photo galleries, and survey and research reports. From the Historic Landmarks Commission site.
Category:   Textiles and Nonwovens > Resources > History > Industry


3. of the English Textile Towns
  Paper arguing that the industrial crisis of the traditional English textile towns during the period 1290-1340 was caused by a far reaching economic crisis afflicting their major cloth markets in the Mediterranean basin, rather then the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full text on PDF document.
Category:   Textiles and Nonwovens > Resources > History > Industry


4. Flax Spinning
  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.
Category:   Textiles and Nonwovens > Resources > History > Industry


5. The Textile Industry
  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.
Category:   Textiles and Nonwovens > Resources > History > Industry




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