Textiles, cement, steel, heavy machinery, chemicals, food, banking and insurance are the major segments contributing to Karachi's GDP.

Textiles are another major industrial export sector, though of declining importance as Taiwan due to labor shortages, increasing overhead costs, land prices, and environmental protection.

Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or pressing fibres together ( felt ).

Textiles have an assortment of uses, the most common of which are for clothing and containers such as bags and baskets.

Textiles used for industrial purposes, and chosen for characteristics other than their appearance, are commonly referred to as technical textiles.

Textiles in a linen weave texture, even when made of cotton, hemp and other non-flax fibers are also loosely referred to as " linen ".

Textiles and shoe making, furnitures, mechanics, automotive ( Heuliez and Irisbus ), chemistry ( Rhodia in Melle ), food industry and food packaging are the major industries outside of the capital.

There are also several industries around several main cities, specially Ponta Grossa ( Soybean products ), Londrina ( Coffee and Cattle ), Maringá ( Soybeans and Cattle ), Telemaco Borba ( Lumber and Cellulose ) and Cianorte ( Textiles and Clothing ).

The University ’ s teaching units are grouped under six faculties and two schools ; the Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Construction and Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, alongside with School of Design and School of Hotel and Tourism Management.

The school currently has three separate campuses, with Fine Art, MFA, Sculpture and Environmental Art being located in the vicinity of the Mackintosh building, and the School of Design-Textiles, Jewellery & Silversmithing, Product Design Engineering, Product Design, Communication Design and Interior Design departments, the Centre for Advanced Textiles, Design Innovation Studio and the Refectory cafeteria, a second branch of Where the Monkey Sleeps, a city centre cafe and restaurant run by three ex-graduates are located in a new, temporary, campus the Sky Park, in Finnieston whilst the developing the current Garnethill campus is on going.

* Paithani Textiles: The Paithani sarees from Paithan are considered to be priced possession by one and all.

Textiles, leather products, cement, tanneries, and tobacco are produced, and coffee, sugar, pineapples, and corn are exported.

Textiles and other products created from alpaca, llama, or sheep wool are characteristic of the area.

The main products of these industries are Drugs, Textiles, Adhesives, Plastics, Rubber, Steel, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering, Fertilizers, Electronics, Chemicals and Iron & Steel.

Many NTBs are governed by WTO agreements, which originated in the Uruguay Round ( the TBT Agreement, SPS Measures Agreement, the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing ), as well as GATT articles.

Textiles and processed food are major manufactures. It has a large number of heavy industry in machine making. As an old textiles basement the cotton industry is very developed in Xinxiang.

Since Decorative Textiles are commonly 54 inches in width, many decorative pillows finish about 17x17 inches.

Handloom Textiles, beedi and coir are the important traditional industries in the district.

Textiles are another major industry, and cotton gins operate in Yaoundé.

Also, having one NTC ( National Textile Corporation ) project ' Tapti Mills ' and 30-35 textile companies like " Shri Kailashpati Textile " " Kamal Textiles " " Paras Process " " Annapurna Calandering Works " " Neel Kamal Processors " " Shivam Textiles " & " Ambey Process " and many more, are best known for interlining cloth, Grey Markin, Bleached Dhoti, Cambric, Power loom Cloth bakram and other types of fabric.

Textiles are the principal local export ; Loriga was a hub the textile and wool industries during the mid-19th century, in addition to being subsistence agriculture responsible for the cultivation of corn.

Courses like Airline and Airport Management, Music Management and Film and Television Production, as well as the extensive Furniture Design and Restoration, Textiles and Advertising departments are the University's main attractions.

Textiles can be made from many materials.

Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan ( 6 June 1915 – 17 January 1995 ) was a Lithuanian-British industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles, of Elland, which made raincoats from the waterproof Gannex fabric he had invented.

The success of the new fabric made Kagan a multi-millionaire and a series of mergers, takeovers, and outright purchases put Kagan Textiles in control of one of the most efficient combines in the textile and clothing industries.

Izabela Ciesielska at the Institute of Architecture of Textiles in Poland experimented with corona discharge photography ( CDP ) to evaluate the effects of human contact with various textiles on biological factors such as heart rate and blood pressure, as well as corona discharge images.

It was the first college to offer engineering degrees in Textiles, which is the major industry of Surat.

Textiles from all over the world can be visited in the Museum for textile art.

* Patricia Stoddard, Ralli Quilts: The Traditional Textiles from Pakistan and India

Textiles from Ypres could be found on the markets of Novgorod in Russia in the early 12th century.

* Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, governed the world trade in textiles and garments from 1994 through 2004

Textiles have a longer history in Paisley, represented by the Sma ' Shot cottages complex on Shuttle Street: a small public museum of weaving from its 18th century origins as a cottage industry.

In 1959, due partly to the re-organisation of the textile industry resulting from that year's Textiles Act, another 17 mills closed.

She studied textiles at the University of Maryland from 1964 to 1968, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Textiles and Clothing.

She has chaired the Clothing, Textiles & Footwear Group ( APPG ) since July 1999, and been a member of the Education & Skills Select Committee ( from 1997 – 2001 ).

The university's research campus, the Centennial Campus, grew from a single building housing the university's College of Textiles to a multi-tenant campus housing academic, corporate, and government researchers.

In 1994, Swanndri New Zealand Ltd purchase the brand from Alliance Textiles.

Textiles ( and, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, lead mining ) revitalised the village and Kettlewell's appearance today derives much from its past 200 years.

A Figure from the booklet Burmese Textiles, published in 1917 by Laura E. Start.

* Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian ( Nov. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998 )

Textiles, cosmetics, furniture, products from locally obtained Golden Onyx, machinery and construction components, cereals, meat, eggs, dairy products, soft drinks, malt, wine ( Levická frankovka is a trademark for locally produced red-wine ).

* Crowfoot, Elisabeth, Frances Pritchard, and Kay Staniland, Textiles and Clothing: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, c. 1150-c. 1450, HMSO Books, 1991, ISBN 0-11-290445-9

Schoeser, Mary & Rufey, Celia ( 1989 ), English and American Textiles from 1790 to the Present, Thames & Hudson, London

As stated in late January, by the then Minister of Textiles, India, Shri Shankersinh Vaghela, the transformation of the textile industry from a degrading to rapidly developing industry, has become the biggest achievement of the central government.

Graduating from Central St Martin's in June 1994 with a BA in Fashion Design and Printed Textiles, his first job following graduation was a freelance design project with Marni.

* Textiles and Artifacts from Charles Duncan McIver located in UNCG Special Collections and University Archives

Apart from these large acquisitions, he was simultaneously expanding his Nishat Textiles segment, Nishat Textiles is Pakistan's largest fabric mill.