textiles
Example Sentences
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Inside her bedroom, the rich red complements a wooden-and-woven bed frame found on Facebook Marketplace and textiles she’s collected from trips to Guatemala and Morocco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
This allowed them to create textiles that could snap between different configurations and remain stable in each one, somewhat like a light switch that stays either on or off.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
In a Honolulu basement, engineers make textiles out of chicken feathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
They sold gold, ivory and ultimately enslaved Africans, often those captured in local conflicts, in exchange for the manufactured goods brought mainly by the British and Dutch, including textiles, alcohol and guns.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The true level of poverty among North Carolina whites during the 1960s was extreme: nearly half of the manufacturing jobs in the state were in textiles, one of the lowest-paid segments of the industry.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
