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History of the textile industry

History of the textile industry

  • Derwent Valley Mills
    Derwent Valley Mills is a World Heritage Site along the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England, designated in December 2001.
  • Spinning (textiles)
    Spinning is a major part of the textile industry.
  • Tweedales & Smalley
    Tweedales and Smalley was a manufacturer of textile machinery in Castleton, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in England.
  • Slatersville, Rhode Island
    Slatersville is a village on the Branch River in the town of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States.
  • Cromford
    Cromford is a village and civil parish, two miles to the south of Matlock in the Derbyshire Dales district in Derbyshire, England.
  • Pawtuxet Village
    Pawtuxet Village is a section of the New England cities of Warwick and Cranston, Rhode Island.
  • Peace Dale, Rhode Island
    Peace Dale (also spelled Peacedale) is a village in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
  • Slater Mill Historic Site
    The Slater Mill is a historic textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England.
  • Wauregan, Connecticut
    Wauregan is a village located in the northwestern corner of the town of Plainfield, Connecticut in the United States.
  • Sequin and Knobel
    Sequin and Knobel, or Séquin and Knobel were a Swiss firm of architects notable for the design of industrial building such as cotton mills and weaving sheds.
  • Phillipsdale Historic District
    The Phillipsdale Historic District encompasses a historic mill village along the Seekonk River in East Providence, Rhode Island.
  • Girangaon
    Girangaon (literally "mill village") was a name commonly used to refer to an area now part of central Mumbai, India, which at one time had almost 130 textile mills, with the majority being cotton mills.
  • North Uxbridge, Massachusetts
    North Uxbridge is a village, and post office, in the town, (township) of Uxbridge in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
  • List of mills in Huddersfield
    This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire
  • List of mills in Bradford
    This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in the Bradford: The metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford includes the Bradford and Keighley with Baildon, Bingley, Denholme, Ilkley, Queensbury and Shelf, Silsden and Shipley and the former rural district of Skipton.
  • Boston Manufacturing Company
    The Boston Manufacturing Company was a business that operated the first factory in America.
  • Lowell Mill Girls
    The "Mill Girls" were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
  • History of Leeds
    Loidis, from which Leeds derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet.
  • Cumberland, Rhode Island
    Cumberland is the northeasternmost town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, first settled in 1635 and incorporated in 1746.
  • Luddite
    Luddites were 19th-century English textile workers (or self-employed weavers who feared the end of their trade) who protested against newly developed technologies that required fewer skilled workers, primarily between 1811 and 1816.
  • Stott and Sons
    Stott and Sons was an architectural practice in Greater Manchester between 1847 and 1931.
  • Timeline of clothing and textiles technology
    This timeline of clothing and textiles technology covers the events of fiber and flexible woven material worn on the body; including making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, and systems (technology).
  • Mill town
    A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles.
  • History of clothing and textiles
    The study of the history of clothing and textiles traces the availability and use of textiles and other materials and the development of technology for the making of clothing over human history.
  • Carolina, Rhode Island
    Carolina is a village that straddles the border of the towns of Charlestown and Richmond on the Pawcatuck River in Washington County, Rhode Island.