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List of books with excerpts on the history of the cotton, wool and silk industries, and textile printing and lace making. From Shire Publications.
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Includes historical resource about the inventor of the cotton gin and the technique of mass producing military firearms.
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Homepage about the history of the steam driven weaving industry in the North West Of England. Photographs and transcribed tape recordings of interviews with individuals who worked in the industry.
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Thematic travel routes organised by the European Textile Network, connecting historical European textile mills, including monuments and recurrent events, textile heritage and production, and education and research.
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Finland. Includes on-line reconstruction of the water powered textile mill at Tampere.
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Home page of Anne Wanders about textile materials and products from the early history of human kind till the present day. Includes collections of links to publications, institutions, dictionaries, reviews and articles, symposia and biographies.
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Spain. Terrassa Textile Museum and Documentation Centre run Internet service for textile designers and researchers of textile history. A resource, searchable by materials, techniques, periods, designs and uses. [English, Catalan and Spanish]
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Collection of historic handbloks for the printing of textile fabrics from 1785 to 1935, categorised in abstract, cashmere, floral, geometric, ornamental and pictorial designs. A description of the handblok printing technique. Links to related sites.
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Glossary of terms in use during the Industrial Revolution in England. Also, the story of the Lancashire cotton industry, with biographies of the inventors and engineers
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Includes glossary of textile technical terms in use from medieval times to the mid 1900's. From Class Act Fabrics.
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