textile
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Born in 1940, his mother was a textile worker and his father was a former military officer whose experience during the wartime evacuation of Dunkirk had a profound impact on his mental health.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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
Nearby a mass-produced printed cotton textile shows mangoes against a sea of fireworks during the National Day parade of the same year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
A newly developed textile covering helped strawberry plants produce more than three times as much fruit in tunnel field trials, while showing no harmful effects on plant health.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Reaching for the trowel in his back pocket, he had realized that the textile was still in his hand, and asked if I would mind hanging on to it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
While resale sites are growing in popularity, in the UK we still bin about 711,000 tonnes of textiles annually, external – roughly the weight of seven US aircraft carriers, external.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
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
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
The sale had gone through quickly, and Immie and her friends had shopped in the Portobello Road market for antiques and in Harrods for textiles.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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