January 13, 1863
- William Canter of New York City received the first U.S. patent for
"Machinery for Manufacturing Chenille".
July 15, 1879
- George Crompton and Horace Wyman, of Worcester, MA, received a patent
for a "Loom" (an "Improvement in Looms"), first American "dobby" loom;
small, geometric figures can be woven in as a regular pattern as
exemplified in Turkish toweling; originally needed a dobby boy who sat
on the top of the loom and drew up warp threads to term a pattern; Wyman
held 260 patents related to looms and textile machinery; assigned patent
to George Crompton.
1880 -
Lafayette Lanier and Ward Crockett reorganized Alabama & Georgia
Manufacturing Company in River View, AL, Chattahoochee Manufacturing
Company in Langdale, GA (founded 1866), renamed West Point Manufacturing
Company (eight stockholders, 75 employees); 1906 - George
lanier (son) took over; made transition from water power to electricity;
March 1965 - merged with Pepperell Manufacturing Company
(formally organized in Biddeford, ME in 1850; September 18, 1928 -
registered "Lady Pepperell" trademark first used March 30, 1927), formed
West Point-Pepperell, Inc. (name brands Carlin, Martex [trademark
registered March 16, 1915 by W. H. & A. E. Margerison & Co., first used
September 30, 1914 for turkish towels, terry cloths], Lady Pepperell);
1986 - acquired Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. (May 15, 1900
- registered "Arrow" trademark first used 1885 for collars and cuffs);
May 1988 - acquired J. P. Stevens & Company (Ralph Lauren,
Laura Ashley sheets and towels) for $1.2 billion; 30% share (2nd) of
$1.2 billion towel market, 36% share of sheet market (first in $1.2
billion bed-linen market); 1989 - acquired, in
five-month, hostile takeover battle, by William Farley (Fruit of the
Loom, Inc.) for $3 billion (20 times 1988 earnings); March 1990
- West Point Acquisition Corporation went into bankruptcy; August
1991 - Farley ceded control of his 95 percent of WPP; 1992
- West Point Acquisition restructured, renamed Valley Fashions
Corporation; December 1993 - renamed WestPoint Stevens,
Inc.
1883 -
John P. Stevens (nephew of Moses T. Stevens) went to work for commission
house of Faulkner, Page & Company; 1899 - formed
partnership commission house to sell products of M.T. Stevens & Sons;
named J.P. Stevens and Co.; 1903 - selling agent for
woolen mills owned by M.T. Stevens and Sons Co.; 1923 -
incorporated; 1935 - merged with Milton Corporation;
1946 - merged with M.T. Stevens and Sons Co.,
Slater-Carter-Stevens, Inc.; became subsidiaries of J.P. Stevens and
Co., Inc.; 1960 - 50 plants in 41 locations; 1987
- sales of $1.6 billion; May 1988 - acquired by Odyssey
Partners, Inc., West Point-Pepperell, Inc., Bibb Co. (Macon, GA) for
$1.2 billion; JPS Textile Group, Inc. formed; December 1993
- renamed renamed WestPoint Stevens, Inc.
1887 -
James William Cannon (35), partner and manager of general store, raised
$75,000, built cotton mill, opened Cannon Manufacturing Company in
Concord, NC; 1894 - opened mill that produced huck towels;
1898 - opened mill that made terry towels; 1916
- established Cannon Mills, Inc. to market, manufacture products;
1921 - 12 mills, over 15,000 employees, estimated $40 million in
annual sales; November 8, 1921 - Cannon Mfg., Co.
registered "Cannon" trademark first used January 19, 1921 (fabric
towels); Charles Cannon (son) took over; 1923 - name sewn
into all towels; 1927 - went public (de-listed in 1962 for
non-compliance, reinstated in 1979); 1928 - consolidated
mills into a single entity, Cannon Mills Co.; 1971 - sales
of $323 million, 17 plants, 24,000 workers, largest employer in
Carolinas; 1982 - acquired in $413 million leveraged
buyout by David Murdock; January 1986 - approximately 75%
of company acquired by Fieldcrest Mills for $321 million; first in
towel, blanket market, third in sheet market.
February 23, 1892
- Black American, Henry A. Bowman, of Worcester, MA, received a
patent for a "Method for Making Flags"; easy method to apply
emblems or stars on field fabric of flags whereby those affixed on
opposite sites of the field would correspond in position.
1893 -
Benjamin Franklin Mebane opened mill on 600 acres of land in Spray, NC;
1905 - owned six mills; 1910 - voting
control of Mebane's Spray Water Power & Land Co. acquired by Marshall
Field, new managers installed; 1912 - takeover completed ,
subsidiary of Marshall Field & Co.; renamed Thread Mills Company;
May 26, 1942 - Marshall Field & Co. registered "Fieldcrest"
trademark first used December 15, 1918 (sheets, pillow cases, blankets,
bed spreads, towels, wash cloths, curtaining); 1953 -
acquired by Amoskeag Co.; September 1953 - incorporated as
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. (sales $39 million); 1962 - went
public (Amoskeag held about 40% of stock); produced blankets,
bedspreads, sheets, towels; 1973 - sales of $290 million
($517.7 million in 1979); 1986 - acquired Cannon Mills for
$321 million; renamed Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc. (12,900 employees, 12
plants, 14 sales offices); fifth largest publicly held textile company;
December 1986 - acquired Bigelow-Sanford, Inc.
(manufacturer of residential, industrial contract carpeting) for $129
million; June 1993 - sold carpet and rug to Mohawk
Industries Inc. for $140 million; focused on core bed, bath operations;
September 11, 1997 - acquired by Pillowtex Corporation for
$400 million.
May 1, 1893
- Netherlands first exhibited kapok (a textile) in U.S. as a
commercial product at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL;
fiber used for stuffing (bed-filling, life-jackets, sound or heat
insulation) before the development of synthetic fibers; water and decay
resistant, obtained from the tropical kapoktree seeds.
September 30, 1902
- Harry S. Mork, of Boston, MA, Arthur D. Little, of Brookline, MA, and
William H. Walker, of Newton, MA
jointly received a patent for a "Process of Making of Cellulose Esters";
first patent for artificial fiber; October 28,
1902 - they received a patent for "Artificial Silk" (viscose,
early name for product); 1924 - textile industry adopted term
rayon to replace "artificial silk" and similar names; rayon is not
synthetic (unlike most man-made fibers) - made from wood pulp, a
naturally-occurring, cellulose-based raw material (similar properties as
cotton or linen vs. petroleum-based synthetic fibers such as nylon).
July 25, 1904
- Some 25,000 textile workers in Fall River hit picket line to
protest conditions at mills; forced situation at mills, plight of child laborers, onto national stage;
prompted formation of
National Child Labor Committee.
December 13, 1938
- Earl O. Whittier and Stephen P. Gould, of Washington, DC, received a
patent for a "Fiber" ("...dispersions of casein (mixed usually with
plasticizers and salts), to be extruded into fibers having the requisite
characteristics of strength, water resistance, flexibility, and softness
necessary to make them suitable as substitutes for wool and other
fibers"); dedicated to the free use of the People of the United Sates of
America.
(American Cotton Growers), Jack Lichtenstein (1990).
Field to Fabric: The Story of American Cotton Growers. (Lubbock,
TX: Texas Tech University Press, 331 p.). American Cotton Growers
(Firm)--History; Cotton trade--United States--History; Cotton textile
industry--United States--History.
(American Woolen Company), Edward G. Roddy (1982).
Mills,
Mansions, and Mergers: The Life of William M. Wood. (North Andover,
MA: Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 148 p.). Wood, William M.,
1858-1926; Businessmen--United States--Biography; Textile
industry--United States--History.
(Amoskeag), George W. Browne (1915). The Amoskeag Manufacturing
Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire, A History. (Manchester, NH:
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., 288 p.). Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.,
Manchester, NH.
(Amoskeag), Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach (1978).
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City. (New York, NY:
Pantheon Books, 394 p.). Amoskeag Manufacturing Company--History;
Textile workers--New Hampshire--Manchester--Biography; Manchester (N.H.)--History.
(Amoskeag), Tamara K. Hareven (1982).
Family Time and Industrial
Time: The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England
Industrial Community. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 474
p.). Professor of Family Studies and History (University of Delaware).
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company--Employees--History; Textile workers--New
Hampshire--Manchester--History; Work and family--New
Hampshire--Manchester--History; Manchester (N.H.)--Social conditions.
(Amoskeag), Arthur M. Kenison (1997).
Dumaine's Amoskeag: Let the Record Speak. (Manchester, NH: Saint Anselm College Press, 203 p.).
Dumaine, Frederic Christopher, 1866-1951; Amoskeag Manufacturing
Company--History; Textile industry--New Hampshire--Manchester--History.
--- (2000).
Frederic C. Dumaine: Office Boy to Tycoon.
(Manchester, NH: Saint Anselm College Press, 277 p.). Dumaine, Frederic
Christopher, 1866-1951; Amoskeag Manufacturing Company--History;
American Waltham Watch Company--History; New York, New Haven, and
Hartford Railroad Company--History; Businessmen--United
States--Biography; Industrialists--United States--Biography; Capitalists
and financiers--United States--Biography; Industries--New
England--History; Textile industry--New Hampshire--Manchester--History.
(Arkwright), R. S. Fitton (1989).
The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune.
(New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 322 p.). Arkwright,
Richard, Sir, 1732-1792; Cotton manufacture--Great Britain--Biography.
(Arkwright), R. S. Fitton and A. P. Wadsworth (1958).
The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758-1830: A Study of the Early Factory
System. (New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 361 p.).
Strutt, Jedediah, 1726-1797; Arkwright, Richard, Sir, 1732-1792; Strutt,
W. G. and J., firm, Manchester, Eng.; Cotton manufacture--Great Britain.
(Bianchini Férier), Pierre Vernus (2006). Art, Luxe et Industrie:
Bianchini Férier, Un Siècle de Soieries Lyonnaises. (Grenoble, FR:
Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 431 p.). Silk industry -- France
-- Lyons; Bianchini Férier. Historical
alternatives model of modern industrial firm; distinctive nature,
workings of entire industry; interplays among high fashion, decorative
arts, technical possibilities for creative design, manufacture of
fabrics; events, shocks, crises, global transformations of
century of European economic history through lens of key player in
valued industrial sector.
(Claude-Joseph Bonnet), Henri Pansu (2003). Claude-Joseph Bonnet:
Soierie et Société à Lyon et en Bugey au XIXe siècle. Les assises de la
renommée: Du Bugey à Lyon_. (Lyon, FR: Tixier, 579 p.). Silk
industry -- France -- Lyons; Bonnet, Claude-Joseph.
Established in 1810 - Bonnet Silk Industries;
factory, Jujurieux, in village of the Bugey.
(Boott Cotton Mills), Laurence F. Gross (1993).
The Course of
Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts,
1835-1955. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 279
p.). Boott Mills (Lowell, Mass.) -- History; Cotton textile industry
-- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History; Cotton manufacture --
Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History; Textile factories -- Massachusetts
-- Lowell -- History.
(Bowers Mills), Augustus Muir (1969).
In Blackburne Valley: The History of Bowers Mills. (Cambridge,
UK: Heffer, 89 p,). Bowers Mills; Blackburne Valley.
(British Linen Company), Edited by Alastair J. Durie (1996).
The
British Linen Company, 1745-1775. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Phillans &
Wilson for the Scottish History Society, 236 p.). British Linen
Company--History; Linen industry--Scotland--History; Flax
industry--Scotland--History; Banks and banking--Scotland--History.
(Brunswick Worsted Mills), H. Morgan Haskell (1983).
Brunswick's Legacy, A Learned Man. (Pickens SC: Brunswick
Worsted Mills, Inc., 249 p.). Brunswick Worsted Mills.
(Callaway Mills), Donna Jean Whitley (1989). Fuller E. Callaway
and Textile Mill Development in LaGrange, 1895-1920. (New York,
NY: Garland Pub., 330 p.). Callaway, Fuller Earle, 1870-1928;
Industrialists--United States--Biography; Textile
industry--Georgia--LaGrange--History.
(Cheney Brothers), Alice Farley Williams (1996).
Silk & Guns: The
Life of a Connecticut Yankee, Frank Cheney, 1817-1904. (Manchester,
CT: Manchester Historical Society, 202 p.). Cheney, Frank, 1817-1904;
Cheney Brothers--History; Industrialists--United States--Biography; Silk
industry--Connecticut--Manchester--History--19th century; Firearms
industry and trade--Connecticut--Manchester--History--19th century.
(Crown Cotton Mills Co.), Douglas Flamming (1992).
Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia,
1884-1984. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 433 p.). Crown Cotton Mills Co. (Dalton, Ga.)--History; Cotton
textile industry--Georgia--Dalton--History; Industries--Southern
States--Case studies; Dalton (Ga.)--Economic conditions.
(Courtaulds ltd.), C. H. Ward-Jackson (1941). A History of
Courtaulds; An Account of the Origin and Rise of the Industrial
Enterprise of Courtaulds Limited and of Its Associate the American
Viscose Corporation. (London, UK: Curwen Press for private
circulation, 177 p.). Courtaulds, ltd., London; American viscose
corporation.
(Courtaulds ltd.), D. C. Coleman (1969-1980).
Courtaulds: An
Economic and Social History. (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 3 vols.).
Courtaulds ltd. Contents: v. 1. The nineteenth century: silk and
crape.--v. 2. Rayon.--[v.] 3. Crisis and change, 1940-1965.
(Courtaulds ltd.), Arthur Knight (1974).
Private Enterprise and
Public Intervention: The Courtaulds Experience. (London, UK: Allen &
Unwin, 223 p.). Courtaulds, ltd.; Textile industry--Great Britain;
Industrial policy--Great Britain.
(Coyne Textile Services), J. Stanley Coyne (1992).
The Wind at
My Back: An Autobiography. (Utica, NY: North Country Books, 164
p.). Coyne, J. Stanley, 1908- ; Coyne Textile Services--History;
Industrialists--United States--Biography; Laundry industry--United
States--History.
(Dan River Mills), Robert S. Smith (1960). Mill on the Dan; a
History of Dan River Mills, 1882-1950. (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 570 p.). Dan River Mills Inc.
(Dan River Mills), Malcolm A. Cross (1982). Dan River Runs Deep:
An Informal History of a Major Textile Company, 1950-1981. (New
York, NY: The Total Book, 293 p.). Dan River Mills Inc.; Textile
industry--United States--History.
(Dasheng Cotton Mill), Elisabeth Koll (2003).
From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The
Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Asia Center, 422 p.). Professor of History (Case
Western Reserve University). Da sheng sha Chang (China)--History;
Textile industry--China--Jiangsu Sheng--History; Business
enterprises--China--Jiangsu Sheng--History; Industries--China--Jiangsu
Sheng--History; Corporations--China--Jiangsu Sheng--History;
Businesspeople--China--Jiangsu Sheng--History; Jiangsu Sheng
(China)--Economic conditions. Development
of the Dasheng Cotton Mill in Nantong into a business group.
(Draper Corporation), William Henry Chase (1950).
Five Generations of Loom Builders. (Hopedale, MA: Draper
Corporation, 87 p.). Draper Corporation; Looms; Textile machinery.
(Charles Early & Marriott (Witney) Ltd.), Alfred Plummer. Richard
E. Early (1969).
The Blanket Makers, 1669-1969; A History of Charles Early & Marriott
(Witney) Ltd. (London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 205 p.).
Charles Early & Marriott (Witney) Ltd.
(Farr Alpaca), Frances C. Hutner (1951). The Farr Alpaca
Company: A Case Study in Business History. (Northampton, MA: Dept.
of History of Smith College, 107 p.). Farr Alpaca Company, Holyoke,
Mass.
(Graniteville Company), Broadus Mitchell (1928).
William Gregg, Factory Master of the Old South. (Chapel Hill,
NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 331 p.). Gregg, William,
1800-1867; Graniteville Company. South's leading
proponent of industrial development.
(Greenwood Mills), G. O. Robinson (1967).
The Character of Quality; The Story of Greenwood Mills, A
Distinguished Name in Textiles. (Greenwood, SC: Greenwood
Mills, 173 p.). Self, James Cuthbert, 1876-1955; Greenwood Mills
(Firm).
(Henrietta Mills), Gerald W. Johnson (1952).
The Making of a Southern Industrialist; A Biographical Study of
Simpson Bobo Tanner. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
Carolina Press, 84 p.). Tanner, Simpson Bobo, 1853-1924.; Henrietta
Mills; Florence Mill.
(Holt and Carrigan Cotton Mill), Bess Beatty (1999).
Alamance:
The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County,
1837-1900. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 247
p.). Holt, Edwin Michael, 1807-1884; Holt family;
Industrialists--United States--Biography; Cotton textile
industry--United States--History--19th century; Cotton textile
industry--North Carolina--Alamance County--History--19th century;
Industrialization--North Carolina--Alamance County--History--19th
century.
(James Kenyon & Son), Augustus Muir (1964).
The Kenyon
Tradition; The History of James Kenyon & Son Ltd., 1664-1964.
(Cambridge, UK: Heffer, 112 p.). James Kenyon & Son.
(Kimball Knitting Mills), Alice E. Reagan (1983).
H.I. Kimball,
Entrepreneur. (Atlanta, GA: Cherokee Pub. Co., 166 p.). Kimball,
H. I. (Hannibal Ingalls), 1832-1895;
Businesspeople--Georgia--Atlanta--Biography; Atlanta (Ga.)--Biography;
Atlanta (Ga.)--Economic conditions.
(Marshall and Company), William G. Rimmer (1960). Marshalls of
Leeds, Flax-Spinners, 1788-1886. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 341 p.). Marshall and Company, Leeds, Eng.
(Alexander Morton & Co.), Jocelyn Morton (1971).
Three Generations in
a Family Textile Firm. (London, UK: Routledge and K. Paul, 481 p.).
Alexander Morton & Co.; Morton Sundour Fabrics.
(Mosenthal), Dolores Fleischer and Angela Caccia (1983).
Merchant Pioneers: The House of Mosenthal. (Johannesburg, SA: J.
Ball, 355 p.). Mosenthal family; Merchants --South Africa --Biography;
South Africa --Commerce --History. Julius,
Adolph (see Aliwal North) , James Mosenthal - started major wool
industry, originators of mohair industry.
(Mosgiel Woollens Limited), Peter J. Stewart (1975). Patterns on
the Plain: A Centennial History of Mosgiel Woollens Limited.
(Dunedin, NZ: Mosgiel, 134 p.). Mosgiel Woollens Limited.
(Mt. Hope Finishing), Burke Davis; foreword by John L. Moorehead
(1981). A Fierce Personal Pride: The History of Mount Hope
Finishing Company and Its Founding Family. (Butner, NC: The
Company, 167 p.). Mount Hope Finishing Company--History; Textile
finishing--Massachusetts--History.
(Nantong Cellulose Fibers Company), William H. Newman (1992).
Birth of a Successful Joint Venture. (Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, 164 p.). Nantong Cellulose Fibers Company; Joint
ventures.
(Pepperell Manufacturing Company), Dane Yorke (1945).
The Men and Times of Pepperell, An Account of the First One Hundred
Years of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, Incorporated
February 16, 1844, by Dane Yorke. (Boston, MA: Pepperell
Manufacturing Company, 107 p.). Pepperell Manufacturing Company;
Biddeford (Me.).
(Pepperell Manufacturing Company), Evelyn H.P. Knowlton (1948).
Pepperell's Progress;
History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945. (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 511 p.). Pepperell Manufacturing Company.
(Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd.), compiled by Percy G. Stevens; with a
foreword by D.W.J. Gould (1970). Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd.: The
Jubilee History, 1919-1969. (Christchurch, NZ: Pyne, Gould,
Guinness Ltd., 152 p.). Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd.; Wool industry--New
Zealand--Cambridge--History; Cambridge (N.Z.)--History.
(Saco-Lowell), George S. Gibb (1969).
The Saco-Lowell Shops;
Textile Machinery Building in New England, 1813-1949. (New York, NY:
Russell & Russell, 835 p. [orig. pub. 1950]). Saco-Lowell Shops; Textile
machinery--New England.
(Salts Mill), Jack Reynolds (1983).
The Great Paternalist: Titus
Salt and the Growth of Nineteenth-Century Bradford. (New York, NY:
St. Martin's Press, 382 p.). Salt, Titus, Sir, 1803-1876;
Businesspeople--Great Britain--Biography; Textile industry--Great
Britain--Biography; Bradford (England)--History. Alpaca.
(Samuel Slater and Sons), Barbara May Tucker (1984).
Samuel
Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860.
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 268 p.). Slater, Samuel,
1768-1835; Textile industry--United States--Biography; Textile
industry--United States--History.
(Springs Industries), Elliott White Springs (1949).
Clothes Make the Man. (Lancaster, SC: E. W. Springs, 446 p.).
Springs Cotton Mills. An aviator in WWI, writer in the 1920's, Springs
became head of five cotton mills in 1931. This book is a history of
the mills, a story of his innovative advertising campaigns to make
Springmaid into a national brand, and 21 short stories.
(Springs Industries), Burke Davis (1987).
War Bird: The Life and
Times of Elliott White Springs. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 267 p.). Springs, Elliott White; Springs
Industries--History; Cotton textile industry--United States--History;
Industrialists--United States--Biography; World War,
1914-1918--Biography; Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
(J. P. Stevens & Co.), Horace Nathaniel Stevens (1946).
Nathaniel Stevens, 1786-1865; An Account of His Life and the Business
He Founded. (North Andover, MA, 266 p.). Founder of J. P. Stevens
& Co. Stevens, Nathaniel, 1786-1865; Stevens (M. T.) and sons company,
North Andover, Mass.
(J. P. Stevens & Co. - founded 1813 by Nathaniel Stevens), Helen
LaPlante Duchesne (2002).
Echoes from the Mills: An Oral History.
(Bristol, NH: Bear Mountain Cove Press, 139 p.). J. P. Stevens &
Co.--History; Textile industry--New Hampshire--Franklin--History;
Textile workers--New Hampshire--Franklin--History.
(Wamsutta Mills), Henry Beetle Hough (1946).
Wamsutta of New Bedford, 1846-1946; A Story of New England Enterprise.
(New Bedford, MA: Wamsutta Mills, 72 p.). Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford,
Mass.
(Whitin Machine Works), Thomas R. Navin (1950).
The Whitin
Machine Works Since 1831; A Textile Machinery Company in an Industrial
Village. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 654 p.). Whitin
Machine Works, Whitinsville, Mass.
(Woodward Baldwin & Co.), Mary Baldwin Baer and John Wilbur Baer
(1977). A History of Woodward, Baldwin & Co. (Annapolis, MD:
Baer, 72 p.). Woodward, Baldwin & Co.; Cotton growing and
manufacture--New England.
Mildred Gwin Andrews (1987).
The Men and the Mills: A History of
the Southern Textile Industry. (Macon, GA: Mercer, 367 p.). Cotton
textile industry--Southern States--History; Wages--Textile
workers--Southern States--History; Business relocation--United
States--History; Cost and standard of living--Southern
States--History.
Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Dryburgh (2007).
The English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327. (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 205 p.). Director of Teaching and Learning
at the at the ICMA Centre (University of Reading); Professor of
Finance at the ICMA Centre (University of Reading); King's College
London. Wool industry --England --History --To 1500; Wool industry
--England --History --To 1500 --Case studies. 11th - mid-15th centuries wool was England's dominant export
(90% of revenues); 1450-1650 - period of decline, wool (English cloth) dominant export in terms of trade value; financial acumen of late medieval merchants,
woolgrowers; pricing structures, market efficiency of agreements; impact on
medieval English monasteries (Pipewell Abbey in Northamptonshire).
Mary H. Blewett (2000).
Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in
Nineteenth-Century New England. (Amherst, MA: University of
Massachusetts Press, 521 p.). Social Historian (University of
Massachusetts Lowell). Textile industry--New England--History.; New
England--Economic conditions. History of
southeastern New England textile industry during 19th century; process
of industrialization from point of view of management and labor
(struggle in terms of class, culture, power); Borden family's efforts
to build private empire, to dominate national market in print cloth;
shifting fortunes of labor force to accommodate newly arrived
immigrants, adapt to new technologies, contest control of mill owners.
.
LeGette Blythe (1965).
Robert Lee Stowe, Pioneer in Textiles.
(Belmont, NC, 288 p.). Stowe, Robert Lee, 1866-1963.
Anthony Burton (1984).
The Rise & Fall of King Cotton.
(London, UK: A. Deutsch: British Broadcasting Corp., 240 p.). Cotton
textile industry--Great Britain--History; Cotton
trade--India--History; Cotton textile industry--United
States--History; Cotton trade--United States--History; Textile
workers--Great Britain--History; Textile workers--United
States--History; Slavery--United States.
Stanley D. Chapman (2002).
Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of
Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c. 1589-2000. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 328 p.). Hosiery industry--Great
Britain--History; Knit goods industry--Great Britain--History.
Frederick Clairmonte and John Cavanagh (1981).
The World in Their Web: Dynamics of Textile Multinationals.
(London, UK: Zed Press, 278 p.). Textile industry; International
business enterprises.
Melvin T. Copeland (1912).
The Cotton Manufacturing Industry of
the United States. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 415
p.). Cotton manufacture--United States; Cotton trade--United States.
W. H. Crawford (2005).
The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster. (Belfast,
IR: Ulster Historical Foundation, 223 p.). Linen industry--Northern
Ireland--History; Linen industry--Ulster (Northern Ireland and
Ireland)--History; Northern Ireland--Economic conditions; Ulster
(Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Economic conditions.
Robert F. Dalzell (1987).
Enterprising Elite: The Boston
Associates and the World They Made. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 298 p.). Boston Associates--History; Textile
industry--Massachusetts--Lowell--History--19th century; Textile
industry--Massachusetts--Waltham--History--19th century; Boston Region
(Mass.)--History.
Steve Dunwell (1978).
The Run of the Mill: A Pictorial Narrative
of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline, and Enduring Impact of the New
England Textile Industry. (Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 299 p.).
Textile industry--New England--History; New England--Economic
conditions.
Edited by Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy (2004).
The Fibre
That Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International
Perspective, 1600-1990s. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 614
p.). Visiting Professor (Manchester Metropolitan University Business
School), Emeritus Professor of Business History (MMUBS). Cotton textile
industry--History; Cotton manufacture--History; Cotton trade--History;
Fibre.
Giovanni Federico (1997).
An Economic History of the Silk
Industry, 1830-1930. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press,
259 p.). Silk industry--History--19th century; Silk
industry--History--20th century.
Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw (2007).
American Silk, 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts.
(Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press. Former Costume Curator,
Professor of Textiles and Design (Westbrook College); Professor of
Mathematics and History of Science and Technology (Smith College);
Curator of the Costume and Textile Collection at the Rhode Island
School of Design Museum. Silk industry--United States--History--19th
century. American silk industry -
through case studies of Nonotuck (Northampton, MA),
Haskell (Westbrook, ME), Mallinson (New York, Pennsylvania).
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The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and
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Herbert Heaton (1920). The Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted
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Elizabeth Hitz (1986).
A Technical and Business Revolution:
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goods industry--United States--History--19th century; Woolen goods
industry--Great Britain--History--19th century; Woolen and worsted
manufacture--United States--History--19th century; Woolen and worsted
manufacture--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Anthony Howe (1984).
The Cotton Masters, 1830-1860. (New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 359 p.). Cotton textile
industry--England--Lancashire--History--19th century; Lancashire
(England)--History.
Pat Hudson (1986).
The Genesis of Industrial Capital: A Study of the West Riding Wool
Textile Industry, c. 1750-1850. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 345 p.). Wool industry--England--West
Yorkshire--History; Capitalism--England--West Yorkshire--History; West
Yorkshire (England)--History. Sources of finance
used in Yorkshire wool textile sector during period of rapid
expansion, considerable technical change, gradual transformation from
domestic and workshop production to factory industry.
William B. Husband (1990).
Revolution in the Factory: The Birth
of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917-1920. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 227 p.). Textile industry -- Soviet Union --
History; Industries -- Soviet Union -- History; Industrial policy --
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David J. Jeremy (1981).
Transatlantic Industrial Revolution: The
Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America,
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384 p.). Textile industry--Technological innovations--United
States--History; Textile industry--Technological innovations--Great
Britain--History; Diffusion of innovations--United States--History;
Diffusion of innovations--Great Britain--History; Technology
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Nancy Frances Kane (1988).
Textiles in Transition: Technology, Wages, and Industry Relocation in
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Robert Kanigel (5/2007).
Faux Real: Genuine Leather and Two Hundred Years of Inspired Fakes.
(Washington, DC: John Henry Press, 352 p.). Professor of Science
Writing at MIT; Director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing.
Leather, Artificial. From formica, vinyl siding,
particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, genetically
altered foods, inspired fakes have polyester imprint of man-made
world. Each represents an often passionate journey of scientific,
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Eric Kerridge (1985).
Textile Manufactures in Early Modern England. (Dover, NH:
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Susan P. Lee (1977). The Westward Movement of the Cotton
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(New York, NY: Arno Press, 269 p.). Cotton trade--United
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States--Economic conditions; United States--Economic conditions--To
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Helen Macnaughtan (2004).
Women, Work, and the Japanese Economic Miracle: The Case of the
Cotton Textile Industry, 1945-1975. (New York, NY:
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century; Cotton textile industry--Japan--Employees--History--20th
century.
A. B. McCullough (1992).
The Primary Textile Industry in Canada:
History and Heritage. (Ottawa, ON: National Historic Sites, Park
Service, Environment Canada, 314 p.). Textile industry--Canada,
Eastern--History; Industries--Canada, Eastern--History.
Henry Merrell and James L. Skinner (1991).
The Autobiography of
Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South. (Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 564 p.). Merrell, Henry, 1816-1883;
Industrialists--Southern States--Biography; Textile industry--Southern
States--History--19th century.
Gail Fowler Mohanty (2006).
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers,
1780-1840. (New York, NY: Routledge, 278 p.). Handloom
industry --Rhode Island --History; Weavers --Rhode Island --History;
Industrialization --Rhode Island --History.
Impact of technological change on outwork and craft weavers - rapid
growth of handloom weaving in response to introduction of water
powered spinning.
Arwen P. Mohun (1999).
Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and
Great Britain, 1880-1940. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
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of Delaware). Laundry industry--United States--History; Laundry
industry--Great Britain--History.
Luca Mola (2000).
The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 457 p.). Silk
industry--Italy--Venice--History; Silk industry--Government
policy--Italy--Venice--History.
William Moran (2002).
The Belles of New England: The Women of
the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove. (New
York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 292 p.). Women textile workers--New
England--History; Textile industry--New England--History;
Industrialists--New England--History; Family-owned business
enterprises--New England--History; Rich people--New England--History;
Social classes--New England--History.
Donald Quataert (1993).
Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 224 p.). Textile
industry--Turkey--History; Industries--Turkey--History; Manufacturing
industries--Turkey--History; Industries--Middle East--History;
Manufacturing industries--Middle East--History; Textile
industry--Middle East--History.
Marta Cotterell Raffel (2003).
The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American
Industry, 1750-1840. (Hannover, NH: University Press of New
England, 156 p.). Lace Maker. Lace and lace
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Judith A. Ranta (1999).
Women and Children of the Mills: An
Annotated Guide to Nineteenth-Century American Textile Factory
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literature--19th century--Bibliography; Women textile workers in
literature--Bibliography; Women textile workers--United
States--Bibliography; Working class women in literature--Bibliography;
Working class writings, American--Bibliography; Working class
women--United States--Bibliography; Textile industry in
literature--Bibliography; Textile industry--United
States--Bibliography; Child labor in literature--Bibliography; Child
labor--United States--Bibliography.
Helen Guyton Rees (2002).
Shaniko: From Wool Capital to Ghost
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Paul E. Rivard (2002).
A New Order of Things: How the Textile
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of New England, 156 p.). Textile industry--New England--History;
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Mary B. Rose (2000).
Firms, Networks, and Business Values: The
British and American Cotton Industries since 1750. (New York, NY:
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Richard J. Salvucci (1987).
Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes,
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Philip Scranton (1983).
Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia,
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University Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and
Technology (Rutgers University). Textile industry --Pennsylvania --Philadelphia --History --19th
century. Rise of textile capitalism in Quaker
City - immigrant family firms, flexible strategies for production,
emphasis on skill, quality, market responsiveness; small, middle-sized
firms functioned through networks of linked specializations; fully realized alternative to
New England corporate style of mass production.
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Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets,
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Cambridge University Press, 518 p.). University Board of Governors
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Textile industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
John Singleton (1991).
Lancashire on the Scrapheap: The Cotton
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John Small (1999).
Merchants, Markets and Manufacture: The English Wool Textile Industry
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198 p.). Associate Professor of History (University of North Carolina,
Charlotte). Wool industry--England--History--18th century; Textile
industry--England--History--18th century; England--Economic
conditions--18th century.
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The Textile
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Bonnie Stepenoff (1999).
Their Fathers' Daughters : Silk Mill
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Susquehanna University Press, 198 p.). Women Silk Industry
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Sir--Diaries; Industrialists--Great Britain--Diaries; Cotton textile
industry--Government policy--Great Britain--History--20th century;
Cotton textile industry--England--Lancashire--History--20th century;
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Barry E. Supple (1959). Commercial Crisis and Change in England,
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L. H. C. Tippett (1969).
A Portrait of the Lancashire Textile Industry. (New York, NY:
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Kosmas Tsokhas (1990).
Markets, Money, and Empire: The Political
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Laurel T. Ulrich (2001).
The Age of Homespun: Objects and
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England--History--19th century; Weaving--Social aspects--New
England--History--19th century; Clothing and dress--Social
aspects--New England--History--19th century; Material culture--New
England--History--19th century; National characteristics, American;
New England--History--1775-1865; New England--Social conditions--19th
century; New England--Economic conditions--19th century.
Frank Ledyard Walton (1953).
Tomahawks to Textiles; The Fabulous Story of Worth Street.
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York (State)--New York--History; New York (N.Y.)--History.
Caroline F. Ware (1931).
The Early New England Cotton
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Louise Wehrle (1995).
Fingers of Steel: Technological Innovation in the United States
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goods industry--United States--History.
Siu-Lun Wong (1988).
Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai
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244 p.). Cotton yarn industry--China--Hong Kong--History; Cotton
spinning--History; Chinese--China--Hong Kong--History;
Entrepreneurship--China--Hong Kong--History; Shanghai
(China)--Emigration and immigration--History; Hong Kong
(China)--Emigration and immigration--History.
Harold D. Woodman (1968).
King Cotton & His Retainers;
Financing & Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925.
(Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 386 p.). Cotton
trade--Southern States--History; Cotton trade--United States--History.
Stephen Yafa (2005).
Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created
Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map. (New
York, NY: Viking, 320 p.). Screenwriter, Playwright, Novelist. Cotton
textile industry--United States--History; Cotton manufacture--United
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