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Eli Whitney Museum
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Extensive historical resource about the inventor of the cotton gin and the technique of mass producing military firearms.
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Scottish Textiles Heritage Online
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Pilot project offering images, archives, museum descriptions and additional resources for information about historical Scottish textile collections. Not available.
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Textile Special Interest Section
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Section within the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), responsible for the preservation of historical textile mills world wide. Introduction to the project. List of known textile sites of international significance. Links to textile museums. Click Organisation/Thematic Sections.
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Textiles in History
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Home page of Anne Wanders about textile materials and products from the early history of human kind till the present day. Extensive collections of links to publications, institutions, dictionaries, reviews and articles, symposia and biographies.
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The Arkwright Society
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UK. Registered charity named after Richard Arkwright who was the inventor of the water powered cotton spinning mill, and is engaged in education and publishing, preservation of historical textile related industrial monuments, and recycling of textiles, paper and timber.
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