textile
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But she had always managed to land on her feet, surviving the precipitous decline of the textile industry during the early and mid-2000s when she was laid off from Springs Industries after 29 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Chinese state media has attributed Hengli’s accomplishments to Chen and Fan, saying they transformed a small textile factory into the country’s third-largest privately owned company through hard work and business savvy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The material was used to make ceremonial blankets, giving these dogs a role centered on textile production rather than hunting or transportation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The home textile manufacturing giant, among India's largest, supplies bedsheets and towels to several major British high-street retailers like John Lewis and Tesco among others.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Metallurgy and textile plants didn’t ring the city, filling the air with smog.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
“I would much rather that retail companies do a lot more reuse” rather than prioritizing recycling textiles, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
In her bedroom, she mixes floral textiles and modern art with a quirky stepstool shaped like an ear of corn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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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