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
In collaboration with textile researchers at Donghua University, one of China's leading institutions for textile science and engineering, the researchers showed that the method works on more than just printable polymer films.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
But it still benefits from China's unique combination of a huge low-cost textile manufacturing sector and a highly sophisticated e-commerce logistics network.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Candice assumed the textile plant she mentioned was the one owned by the Allen family.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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
In the future, the researchers envision textiles that could quietly track body movement, deliver tactile feedback, or change their physical shape when needed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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 67-year-old breast cancer survivor, who consults on sustainable textiles and runs a small farmers market, would never have her own property sprayed with pesticides, but admits to having envied neighbors who did.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Their report was only off by a hair; the Kongo people made remarkable textiles by beating the fibrous bark of certain trees, or weaving thread from the raffia palm.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing textile
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