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2. Wamsutta Mills - Wikipedia

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   Wamsutta Mills is a former textile manufacturing company and current brand offering sheets, towels, bedding and other household products. Founded by Thomas Bennett, Jr. on the banks of the Acushnet River in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1846 and opened in 1848, Wamsutta Mills was named after Wamsutta , the son of a Native American chief who ...

3. Coverlet - Wikipedia

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   A coverlet (earlier coverlid) is a fabric covering spread, usually for a bed, and may refer to: Woven coverlet , a bed covering used in the United States from the colonial period to the mid-19th century

4. Plain weave - Wikipedia

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   Balanced plain weaves are fabrics in which the warp and weft are made of threads of the same weight (size) and the same number of ends per inch as picks per inch. [ 3 ] Basketweave is a variation of plain weave in which two or more threads are bundled and then woven as one in the warp or weft, or both.

5. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Cotton was at first a small-scale crop in the South. Cotton farming boomed following the improvement of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney. [59] It was 50 times more productive at removing the seeds than with a roller. Soon, large cotton plantations, based on slave labor, expanded in the richest lands from the Carolinas westward to Texas.