enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Linen - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linen

    A linen handkerchief with drawn thread work around the edges Linen cloth recovered from Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea Flax stem, fiber, yarn and woven and knitted linen textiles. Linen (/ ˈ l ɪ n ə n /) is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is very strong and absorbent and dries faster than cotton. Because of these ...

  3. Homespun movement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homespun_movement

    The homespun movement was started in 1767 by Quakers in Boston, Massachusetts, to encourage the purchase of goods, especially apparel, manufactured in the American Colonies. [1] The movement was created in response to the British Townshend Acts of 1767 and 1768, in the early stages of the American Revolution. [2] [3]

  4. Negro cloth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_cloth

    "Superior American Negro Cloths" advertised in a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper in 1826. Negro cloth or Lowell cloth was a coarse and strong cloth used for slaves' clothing in the West Indies and the Southern Colonies. [1] [2] [3] The cloth was imported from Europe (primarily Wales) in the 18th and 19th centuries. [4] [5]

  5. The fabric of our nation: A brief history of women and ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/fabric-nation-brief-history-women...

    Made Trade compiled a brief history of women and textiles in the United States, drawing on historical museum documents, interviews, and research. ... American textile arts and industry today.

  6. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_clothing_and...

    The drafting history of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing; American Women's History: A Research Guide Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Clothing and Fashion; All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume; Gallery of English Medieval Clothing from 1906 by Dion Clayton Calthrop

  7. Linsey-woolsey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linsey-woolsey

    Colonial American linsey-woolsey. Linsey-woolsey (less often, woolsey-linsey or in Scots, wincey) is a coarse twill or plain-woven fabric woven with a linen warp and a woollen weft. Similar fabrics woven with a cotton warp and woollen weft in Colonial America were also called linsey-woolsey or wincey.

  8. Linens - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linens

    A close-up of the texture of hand-woven linen fabric made in the early 20th century in the Balkans. An illustration of how to darn linen, from the Encyclopedia of Needlework (1884) by Thérèse de Dillmont. A French armoire with home linens arranged in a traditional manner, with embroidered dust covers over the shelves.

  9. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_clothing_and...

    Second and revised edition. ©The American Museum of Natural History. A publication of the Anthropological Handbook Fund, New York, 1960. Habib, Irfan (2011). Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500. Pearson Education. ISBN 9788131727911. Jenkins, David, ed. (2003). The Cambridge History of Western Textiles. Cambridge University Press.