| A History of Cotton Mills and Cotton Mill Vilages: Extensive excerpt of a book on the development of the textile industry in Mississippi, USA. Author: Narvell Strickland. |
| An Introduction to the Textile Tradition in Prato: Timeline and short period descriptions of the development of the textile industry in this north Italian industrial center, from the 13th century till the present. Author: Prof. Claudio Balcucci. |
| Ancient Textiles as Evidence for Textile Production: Article on the study of ancient textiles from the Roman period as archeological tool for the provision of information on cultural, technological and trade practices. |
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Description, historic development and current situation of sweatshops, of which those related to the textile industry are the most notorious. Links to related sites. Authors: Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein. |
| Blackburn, Cotton and the Industrial Revolution: The history of Blackburn, UK, as it developed from a small market town in the 16th century, to one of the most important textile weaving centers in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Author: S. Lassey. |
| Cotton Mill and Textile History Guide: Extensive historical information on past and present cotton yarn spinning and fabric weaving mills of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, USA. Photo galleries, and survey and research reports. From the Historic Landmarks Commission site. |
| Flax Spinning: Article about the history of flax. Characterization, cultivation, processing and spinning of flax, from 6000 BCE till the present age. From the Kingdom of Ealdormere. Author: Ercadh Padraic. |
| History of Technology and Work: Comprehensive article on the causes, effects, cultural origins and consequences of the Industrial Revolution, as it began in the English textile industry. Author: Patricia R. Backer. |
| Industrial Change in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Low Countries: Review of the circumstances which resulted in Merino wools to become the chief woollen cloth in the southern Low Countries during the later fifteenth and early sixteenth Century. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. |
| Lancashire Textile Project: History of the steam driven weaving industry in the North West of England. Includes pictures and transcripts of interviews with those involved in the industry. |
| Lippitt Mill and Related Textile History: Excerpts of a book on the industrialization of New England, as it started with the development of mechanised textile mills. Drawings of contemporary mills and machinery, and descriptions of production processes. Author: J. E. Hayes III. |
| Monetary Politics, Guild Labour-Strife, and Compulsory Arbitration during the Decline of the Late-Medieval Flemish Cloth Industry: Paper exploring the impact of the Count of Flanders' monetary and wage policies upon the Flemish woollen cloth manufacturing industry during its period of decline from 1390 to 1435. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. Author: John H. Munro. |
| Textile History: Concise overview of the development of textiles as an industry, from Neolithic times to the Industrial Revolution. From the Textile Guide web site. |
| Textile Science and Technology: Informative web site, with short articles on the history and development of the textile industry, knitting technology, man-made fibers and textile specialty chemicals. Author: J.N. Vohra. |
| Textiles as Articles of Consumption in Flemish Towns: Reconstruction of a Flemish basket of consumables price index for the period 1350-1500, aimed to determine the value of luxury broad woven woollen cloth related to income. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. Author: John H. Munro. |
| The "Industrial Crisis" of the English Textile Towns: Paper arguing that the industrial crisis of the traditional English textile towns during the period 1290-1340 was caused by a far reaching economic crisis afflicting their major cloth markets in the Mediterranean basin, rather then the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full text on PDF document. |
| The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns: Abstract of a paper on the causes of the economic crisis in the traditional English textile manufacturing centers during the period between 1290 and 1340 CE. Full paper on PDF files. Author: John H. Munro. |
| The Falls of the Clyde, New Lanark Mills: Description of the 18th century water powered cotton spinning mill built by David Dale and Richard Arkwright, and the village that developed around it. |
| The Impact of Monetary and Labour Policies on the Flemish Cloth Industry: Study focusing on the consequences of monetary policy in aggravating ongoing conflict in the English and Dutch cloth industry's labor relations during the late 14th Century. Author: John Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. |
| The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin: Cost-benefit analysis, challenging the conventional wisdom in European economic history that long-distance maritime transport in 1200-1600 as always more cost effective than overland trade routes. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. |
| The Story of My Cotton Dress: A child's view of the conditions under which children and adults were being employed in early 20th century American textile mills and sewing plants. From The Child Labor Bulletin (1914). |
| The Symbiosis of Towns and Textiles: Extensive working paper on the effects of urbanization of the textile industry on cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England between 1280 and 1570 CE. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract, and full text on PDF document. |
| The Textile Industry: Concise description of the textile industry as a family enterprise before the Industrial Revolution. Links to textile inventors, brief history of the cotton industry, and chronology of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. From The Open Door web site. |
| Whole Cloth: Web version of an educational project, aimed at widening public understanding of the development of the American textile industry. Extensive essays, illustrations and history resources on the industrialization of textile manufacturing, cloth dyeing techniques and fibers. |
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