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  2. Category : Textile machinery manufacturers of the United States

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    Manufacturing companies of the United States, which create machinery for textile manufacturing. Pages in category "Textile machinery manufacturers of the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.

  3. Cotton-spinning machinery - Wikipedia

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    The rival machine, the throstle frame or ring frame was a continuous process, where the roving was drawn twisted and wrapped in one action. The spinning mule became self-acting (automatic) in 1830s. The mule was the most common spinning machine from 1790 until about 1900, but was still used for fine yarns until the 1960s.

  4. Category:Textile machinery manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Textile machinery manufacturers of the United States (13 P) Pages in category "Textile machinery manufacturers" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.

  5. Spinning (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers.The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin.A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other than cotton, which is the most popular, are viscose (the most common form of rayon), animal fibers such as wool, and synthetic polyester. [1]

  6. Textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Textile manufacturing in the modern era is an evolved form of the art and craft industries. Until the 18th and 19th centuries, the textile industry was a household work. It became mechanised in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has continued to develop through science and technology since the twentieth century. [ 2 ]

  7. Texas Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne - Wikipedia

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    Thus, Texas Mill was one of 104 mills brought into LCC ownership, and one of the 53 mills that survived through to 1950. It had been converted to rings and it produced 20 to 40 count high class combed and carded hosiery yarns. Later it converted to artificial fibres. Still spinning, was destroyed by fire 22–23 October 1971. [3]

  8. Draper Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Focusing on looms for the cotton textile industry, Draper became part of the "Big Three" textile machinery makers in the Blackstone Valley, along with Crompton & Knowles of Worcester, Massachusetts, which focused on looms for wool, and the mighty Whitin Machine Works in nearby Whitinsville, Massachusetts which largely made spinning frames and ...

  9. Textile industry - Wikipedia

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    At present, there are 1,221 ginning units, 442 spinning units and 124 large spinning units in addition to 425 small units which produce textiles. Pakistan is the third largest consumer of cotton. Exports of $3.5 billion were recorded in 2017–18 (6.5% of the total exported cotton on the world).