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Usage examples of textile.

English weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect, was born near Manchester, the son of humble parents, and started life in a textile factory, educating himself in his spare time.

She thinks that textiles were invented very early on: she has, she says, identified impressions of netting on fragments of clay from Upper Palaeolithic sites in Moravia and Russia that suggest the possibility of net hunting.

It need hardly be said that while French wine and silk prospered under this arrangement, other textiles and ironwares suffered an onslaught of cheap competition from the much more advanced British manufactures.

Entirely new ways of combining textiles and dyes, ideas as eye-opening as pointillism or cubism or scintillism were in their day.

Textile manufacture began to decline after 1880, but luckily for an ageing Silas Twing and his ever-inventive son, Gordon, Silas had been doing some thinking.

The sun was low in the viridian sky and the heat rose in waves, but the Textile Market was still thronged.

In fact, I wanted to ask what you thought of the beaded moccasins and the textile samples I brought back from my trip to the Wapiti Ridge reservation.

He sighed, still regretting the textile, and reached for his wine glass, taking a tiny cautious sip.

Mercers, seamers, and other merchants have not been able to sell their wares, for they have been forbidden to make or purchase such textiles as are deemed vain by Savonarola.

Through all the defeats, the beatings, the murders, however, it was the beginning of textile mill unionism in the South.

One of the biggest recent failures in the textile business came in 2003, when the Pillowtex Corp.

Lowell textile mills, of the Spanish-American war as seen by the Cubans, the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon, the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem, the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America.

You may not have run ammunition, but how many neutral ships were loaded off how many piers in India with textile cargoes bound for Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven during the same period.

They developed the processes of producing cellulose from wood pulp to take the place of cotton for making guncotton, and certain forms of wood fiber and paper were used in the textile trades.

Purgatory Station or in the outlying hydroponic farms, new textiles, new entertainments.