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2. Textile industry - Wikipedia

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   The textile industry in India traditionally, after agriculture, is the only industry that has generated huge employment for both skilled and unskilled labour in textiles. The textile industry continues to be the second-largest employment generating sector in India. It offers direct employment to over 35 million in the country. [25]

3. 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]

4. Clothing technology - Wikipedia

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   Clothing technology describes advances in production methods, material developments, and the incorporation of smart technologies into textiles and clothes. The clothing industry has expanded throughout time, reflecting advances not just in apparel manufacturing and distribution, but also in textile functionality and environmental effect. The ...

5. Technological and industrial history of the United States

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   The technology and information on how to build a textile industry were largely provided by Samuel Slater (1768–1835) who emigrated to New England in 1789. He had studied and worked in British textile mills for a number of years and immigrated to the United States, despite restrictions against it, to try his luck with U.S. manufacturers who ...

6. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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   Early industrialized region at Barmen in the Wupper Valley, 1870 - painting by August von Wille. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom. The main drivers of the Industrial Revolution were textile manufacturing, iron founding ...

7. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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   1842 – John Greenough patents the first sewing machine in the United States. 1844 – John Smith of Salford granted a patent for a shuttleless rapier loom. [citation needed] 1846 – John Livesey adapts John Heathcoat's bobbinet machine into the curtain machine. 1847 – William Mason Patents his "Mason self-acting" Mule.