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Photographs of Milltowns in England, Great Britain and India.
On-line exhibition of large format photographs of textile mills in New England, USA, Britain and India, from Randolph Langenbach's collection.
http://www.conservationtech.com/x-MILLTOWNS/RL-Photographs-4x5/PhotoFOLIO-home.htm
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The Cotswold Woollen Industry
Short article about the history of wool production, processing and cloth weaving, from 1360 until the Industrial Revolution. From the Cotswold HyperGuide History and Lore Page.
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/hyperg/history/sheep.htm
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History of Knitting
The history of knitting, from the early nålebinding technique involving the creation of fabric from thread by making multiple knots or loops, the current high-speed circular and flat bed knitting technologies. From Tanya's Knitting World.
http://www.mp-comp.co.uk/Tanya%20Knitting%20World/history.html
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No Idle Hands, The Social History of American Knitting
Review of a textbook about the history of home and industrial machine knitting in the United States from Independence until the present time. Author: Anne L. Macdonald.
http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1202/bknit.html
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Macclesfield Museum Trust
UK. Group of museums, consisting of a working Victorian silk mill and exhibitions of silk costumes and textiles which together convey the history of the Macclesfield silk industry, and educate the public in the properties, historical manufacturing techno
http://www.macclesfield.silk.museum/
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Weaving in Yorkshire
Illustrated history of the cloth weaving industry in the Yorkshire area of the United Kingdom in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
http://maggieblanck.com/Land/WE.html
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The Woollen Industry In Huddersfield
The history of the wool processing and woollen textile industry in Huddersfield, Great Britain, from the 13th century until the Act of Parliament from 1834 which outlawed employment of children under 9 years of age.
http://www.huddersfield1.co.uk/huddersfield/huddswool.htm
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Celia Fiennes on Exeter
Journal entries of Celia Fiennes, a non-conformist Scottish woman from an aristocratic family written during her journey on horseback across England in 1698, describing the town of Exeter and its thriving woollen textile industry.
http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/_misc/celiafiennes.php
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Through a Cotton Mill; 1887
Article printed in a Fall River, Massachusetts newspaper 23 November 1887, explaining the occupations that were unique to working in the cotton textile mills of the time. Includes a link to a collection of cotton mill postcards.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ussnei/cottonmill1887.htm
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The Wool Trade of Guildford
The history of the woollen cloth manufacture and trade in Guilford, Surrey, Great Britain, which developed during Mediaeval and Tudor times as a cottage industry and disappeared at the beginning of the 18th century with the emergence of the mechanised c
http://www.guildford.gov.uk/GuildfordWeb/Leisure/GuildfordMuseum/GuildfordSites/HistoryNotes/The+Wool+Trade.htm
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