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The spun thread was very uniform and fine. Some iron age fabrics also had patterns of stripes woven in. The finer fabric has been attributed to the development of breeds of sheep with finer wool and less kemp. [50] Other Iron Age fabrics from northwestern Europe have been found on bodies preserved by the anaerobic and acidic conditions of peat ...
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]
Again, troops were called in to keep the peace, and the strike leaders were arrested, but some of the worker demands were met. [24] The early textile factories employed a large share of children, but the share declined over time. In England and Scotland in 1788, two-thirds of the workers in 143 water-powered cotton mills were described as children.
The fabric was originally from the city of Calicut in southwestern India. It was made by the traditional weavers called cāliyans. The raw fabric was dyed and printed in bright hues, and calico prints became popular in Europe.
A common false etymology holds that the word "corduroy" derives from the French phrase corde du roi or the cord of the king. [2] [3] [non-primary source needed] The word corduroy is from cord (i.e., rope) and duroy, which was a coarse woollen cloth made in England in the 18th century.
Turkeywork (alternately turkey-work or turkey work; sometimes called setwork and Norwich work) is a knotted-and-cut pile furnishing textile produced in England from the sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Turkeywork was used for table carpets, cupboard carpets, cushions, and especially for matched upholstery sets for chair seats and backs.
In 1765, they managed to create a tulle-like fabric on a so-called stocking framework. It took, however, some more years until the first real tulle could be produced mechanically. The forerunner of the bobbinet machine was the 1589 stocking frame , a weaving frame fitted with a bar of bearded needles that passed back and forth, to and from the ...
Shot silk (also called changeant, [1] changeable silk, changeable taffeta, cross-color, changeable fabric, [2] or "dhoop chaon" ("sunshine shade") [3]) is a fabric which is made up of silk woven from warp and weft yarns of two or more colours producing an iridescent appearance. [4]