Textile Industries

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...

Vit Nam is the home of more than fifty ethnic minorities--such as the Cham and Thai--many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditi...