Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bengal accounted for more than 50% of textiles and around 80% of silks imported by the Dutch from Asia, [81] Bengali silk and cotton textiles were exported in large quantities to Europe, Indonesia, and Japan, [82] and Bengali muslin textiles from Dhaka were sold in Central Asia, where they were known as "daka" textiles. [80]
Made Trade compiled a brief history of women and textiles in the United States, drawing on historical museum documents, interviews, and research.
1928 – International Bureau of Standardization of Man Made Fibers founded. [24] 1939 – US passes Wool Products Labeling Act, requiring truthful labeling of wool products according to origin. [25] 1940 – Spectrophotometer invented, with impact on commercial textile dye processes. 1942 – First patent for fabric singeing awarded in US. [26]
Twenty acres were donated by Amoskeag Mills to create Valley Cemetery. The city's main thoroughfare, Elm Street, ran atop a ridge parallel to the mills below, but at a remove to lessen their clamor. Bostonian T. Jefferson Coolidge was the financial manager 1876 to 1898 who made it highly profitable.
As a result of their smoothness, Inca textiles made of vicuña fiber are described as "silk" by the first Spanish explorers. The finest Inca cloth had a thread count of more than 600 threads per inch, higher than that found in contemporaneous European textiles and not excelled anywhere in the world until the industrial revolution in the 19th ...
Trade catalogs and pattern books were propelled by the printing press. Although its origin is unknown, historians believe that the oldest known version was invented in China around 1000 AD. Printing was refined in China in 1297, leading to the mass production of books, and 150 years later the Gutenberg printing press appeared in 1440 in Germany ...
Paul Moody (May 23, 1779 – July 5, 1831) was a U.S. textile machinery inventor born in Byfield, Massachusetts (Town of Newbury). He is often credited with developing and perfecting the first power loom in America, which launched the first successful integrated cotton mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1814, under the leadership of Francis Cabot Lowell and his associates.
The new mill no longer needed water power, but instead used steam engines to power generators. The mill made only yarn until 1893 when they began to produce fabrics as well. That was the year that they made the first Chatham Blanket. In 1895 the company started making wool suiting fabric and brought a tailor from New York to make suits. [2]