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
Like other fast-fashion giants including H&M and Zara, Shein has faced allegations of underpaying and overworking textile workers at its factories.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
They also include various paper, textile and electronic products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Along the way, he met his wife, an accountant at a state-owned textile mill, state media said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
I thought of my dorm room—of the murky walls and frigid tiles, but also of the sunflowers Drew had sent, and of the textile wall hanging a friend from Zimbabwe had brought from his village.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
By studying how the fabric's geometry and material properties influenced this snap-through behavior, the team determined the physical conditions that allow knitted textiles to become multistable.
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
She watched the bored-looking merchants inside their tiny stalls, smoking, or spitdng into brass spittoons, their faces emerging from the shadows now and then to peddle textiles and fur-collared poostin coats to passersby.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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