Textile

Examples

• In textile fabrics they have never been surpassed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of the most important of the early inventions in the textile art was the _cotton gin_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• An important branch of the textile art is cloth finishing, whereby the rough surface of the cloth as it comes from the loom is rendered soft and smooth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• No one who watched the textile strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1912 can forget the astounding effect it had on the complacency of the public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In ceramic as well as textile art the first inventors were women. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Two other rope-making fibers of importance are the Sunn hemp of India and cotton, ropes of the latter being largely used for certain purposes, such as driving parts of textile machinery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The coloring of textile fabrics, such as cotton, wool, and silk, far outranks in amount and importance that of leather, paper, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They do not seem to have used grass or such-like fibre for textiles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the line of textiles, cotton and silk threads in great variety, with woven goods of all kinds from cheese-cloth to silk plush. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the field of textiles there are many related arts and machines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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