textile
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Crews were also called to a blaze there in July 2025 and there was a major fire that destroyed a significant part of the former textile mill in 2022.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The name is a nod to the women’s suffrage movement and was popularized by a 1912 textile industry strike in Lawrence, Mass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The team selected highly elastic yarns and used a knitting method called plating, which places different yarns on opposite faces of the textile.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Samar Karam, in charge of archaeological sites in north Lebanon, said a Roman-era olive press was found on private property along with pottery weights and items for textile production.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
This was East Durham, an area of run-down houses built around the turn of the century by the textile manufacturers for their workers.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
Beyond his exploits in Sao Paulo's financial hub Faria Lima, high-flying Vorcaro invested in real estate, pharmaceuticals, textiles and even soccer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
From a scientific perspective, the work also brings textiles closer to the field of nonlinear mechanical metamaterials.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
She studied media, textiles and health and social care, and said there had been "lots of stress and meltdowns over exam period", but a "supportive community" at school and home made it easier.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Andean textiles were woven with great precision—elite garments could have a thread count of five hundred per inch—and structured in elaborate layers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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