textile

Bangladesh's textile industry employs around four million workers and manufactures garments for major global brands including H&M, Primark and Uniqlo.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Instead, he’s in Sweden, raising two boys, working as a quality control inspector for a textile company and playing amateur soccer for a team in the country’s fifth division.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Linktour, a new brand owned by a Chinese textile company, is offering tiny aluminum-framed cars that will compete against Fiat Topolinos in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

A newly developed textile covering helped strawberry plants produce more than three times as much fruit in tunnel field trials, while showing no harmful effects on plant health.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

When cotton became readily available there in the eighteenth century, it grabbed so much of the textile market that French woolmakers persuaded the government to ban the new fiber.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Costume designer Libby Dempster works with a variety of artisans, including a weaver, the armory department, the jewelry department, pattern cutters, a textiles team and a breakdown team, who make the clothes look worn in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

His company, Faisaltex, headquartered in his home city of Preston, was known for manufacturing textiles, such as socks and nighties, which it supplied to retailers.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Employment losses can also be more pronounced in labor-intensive industries such as textiles and apparel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The EU's trade enforcement chief, Denis Redonnet, said sectors facing "sustained and abnormal" import increases included machinery, textiles, basic metals and chemicals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 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