Textile Industries

Optimization and decision making are integral parts of any manufacturing process and management system. The objective of this book is to demonstrat...

The retail sales floor has become a battlefield: each brand is fighting for the same customer and wants to ensure their merchandise is on the sales...

Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This sto...

This work is a comparative study of the three great American wars of the 20th century: World War I, World War II and Vietnam. The book explores ...

Nordic Baby Crochet includes easy to follow crochet patterns to create beautiful baby clothes and accessories without the need for arduous assembly...

An appreciation for the work and humanity of the artisans involved with wild silk creation Silk. Just the word invokes intrigue and fantasies ...

Little Germany takes us back to the nineteenth century, when Bradford, West Yorkshire, was the wool capital of the world. Over the centuries, Germa...

Providing detailed analysis of the thermal comfort assessment of clothing as the basis for developing standards, this book discusses the thermal pr...

The co-operators of Hebden Bridge were to producer co-operation what the Rochdale Pioneers were to consumer co-operation - pioneers. Driven by...

You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first c...

When school pupils Capel Cochineal and Stanley Sheep are asked by their teachers to produce a history project about their area, they soon realise t...

How has the firm of Swaine Adeney Brigg, one of Britain's oldest and most prestigious manufacturers of leather goods and umbrellas, survived for so...

Channel 4's The Mill captivated viewers with the tales of the lives of the young girls and boys in a northern mill. Focusing on the lives of the a...

This seminal text demystifies all the terminology around working with textiles today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and...

'A gripping blockbuster... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' TELEGRAPH. Fashionopolis is the definitive ...

A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing indu...

When the future of his family''s rope business in Liverpool was threatened at the end of the 1920s Eric Rigby-Jones had to leave his wife and young...

The Merchant of Syria tells the life of Abu Chaker, a cloth merchant from Homs who lived from 1921 to 2013. Barely literate, he nevertheless built ...

A book about fashion, this volume tells the story of the elegant luxury fabrics of Taroni, who since 1880 have produced fabrics of the highest qual...

Since 1954, Supima has dedicated itself to offering the world s finest cottons to the global fashion industry. Cross breeding strains to develop a ...

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In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create n...

This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework kn...

In 1863, Stockport warehouseman William John Battersby refused to change the date of his wedding, a decision that ultimately cost him his job. He c...

In Search of the World's Finest Wools is a photographic search around the world to find the finest wools available and to meet the dedicated people...

In the woollen industrys heyday Gloucestershire had over 200 mills, producing cloth which was transported to markets all over the world: to Europe,...

In today''s globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman''s blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique...

Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, I...