textile
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A textile artist has turned a Soho gallery into an Italian restaurant and delicatessen - where everything on the menu is made of yarn.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Instead, he’s in Sweden, raising two boys, working as a quality control inspector for a textile company and playing amateur soccer for a team in the country’s fifth division.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The house, with origins in the 15th Century, belonged to textile, fashion and retail entrepreneur Laura Ashley and her husband Bernard and owned by the family until his death in 2009.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
He had expected to join the family textile business and pursued a course in textile engineering and another in management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Even when all you want to do is travel? Or marry the daughter of a textile merchant?”
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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Costume designer Libby Dempster works with a variety of artisans, including a weaver, the armory department, the jewelry department, pattern cutters, a textiles team and a breakdown team, who make the clothes look worn in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
In Coventry, Adele Harrison, founder of not-for-profit organisation Cov Cloth, runs workshops that teach children and parents how to transform unwanted textiles and household items into Halloween costumes, decorations and accessories.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
While the U.S. restricts companies from importing goods such as cotton and textiles from the region, in general it doesn’t prohibit American firms from selling there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The EU's trade enforcement chief, Denis Redonnet, said sectors facing "sustained and abnormal" import increases included machinery, textiles, basic metals and chemicals.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
They lived in the same high-rise where they’d raised Barack, in a small apartment decorated with Indonesian textiles that Ann had sent home over the years.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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