textile manufacture
21General Textile Mills — was one of several company names that preceded the name of today s Gentex Corporation. For historians researching the U.S. textile industry and Northeastern Pennsylvania and Carbondale, Pennsylvania industrialization, this is a name of… …
22Filature (textile) — Filature textile Pour les articles homonymes, voir Filature. Bobine de fils dans une filature Une filature est une usine de …
23Filature Textile — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Filature. Bobine de fils dans une filature Une filature est une usine de …
24tactile, tactual, textile — These look alikes are often confused and with good reason, too, because tactile and tactual are close in meaning and use. Tactile and tactual refer to the sense of touch, with tactual being the somewhat more general and more generally used word.… …
25Filature textile — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Filature. Bobine de fils dans une filature Une filature est une usine de filage textile …
26Blocking (textile arts) — In knitting, crochet and other textile arts, blocking is a final stage of handmade textile production that adjusts the shape of the finished piece. Not all pieces need blocking, however blocking is standard for lace work, and is not uncommon in… …
27Gobelins, Manufacture Nationale des — A textile factory located in the 13th arrondissement (zone) of Paris, and named after a family of French dyers, the Gobelin enterprise began in the mid 15th century, when Jean and Philibert Gobelin set up a dye works on the outskirts of the… …
28Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
29United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
30History of clothing and textiles — Ladies making silk, early 12th century painting by Emperor Huizong of Song (a remake of an 8th century original by artist Zhang Xuan), illustrates silk fabric manufacture in China. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and …
