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 are made in various strengths and degrees of durability, from the finest gossamer to the sturdiest canvas.

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.

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.

Albert Hartley Textiles is the last remaining textiles mill in the town and is a big employer for the local area.

Other collections relate to local archaeology, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Fine Art, Music, Personalities, Science and Technology, Social History, Weapons and War.

Following the year Yeungnam University was chosen as a Supervising University in Machinery field and as an Attending University in Information Technology field for the program of rearing local universities in the Brain Korea Project as well as the university was selected by the Ministry of Science and Technology as Research Information Center for Textiles and Apparel Science.

* The Ambassador ( magazine ), ( formerly International Textiles ), a British export magazine for textiles and fashion

It was once the home of three large textile mills, namely Alitex, Bally Spinning Mills and MYM Textiles that used to export abroad.

* Victoria and Albert Museum Sampler story ; Textiles

The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education ( IVE ) provides training in nine different vocational fields, namely: Applied Science ; Business Administration ; Child Education and Community Services ; Construction ; Design ; Printing, Textiles and Clothing ; Hotel, Service and Tourism Studies ; Information Technology ; Electrical and Electronic Engineering ; and Mechanical, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering.

* Barber, E. J. W .; Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean ; Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991 ; ISBN 0-691-03597-0 ( Barber 1991 )

* Bender Jørgensen, Lise ; ' Stone-Age Textiles in North Europe ' in Textiles in Northern Archaeology, Textile Symposium in York, North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles Monograph 3, NESAT III ; London Archetype Publications, 1990 ; ISBN 1-873132-05-0.

The Victoria & Albert Museum is split into four Collections departments, Asia ; Furniture, Textiles and Fashion ; Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass and Word & Image.

Textiles ;

Textiles have been produced in Preston since the middle of the 13th century, when locally produced wool was woven in people's houses.

The campus was the result of the unification of the Bradford Durfee College of Technology in Fall River and the New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology in New Bedford in 1962 to form the Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute.

The textile industry was once the core of Belmont's economy, but due to most textile facilities moving overseas, Belmont's motto " The City of Diversified Textiles " is no longer relevant.

The New Bedford Textile School was renamed the New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology and the Bradford Durfee Textile School was renamed the Bradford Durfee College of Technology.

Two years later, the State Testing and Examination Authority for Textiles was founded in Reutlingen.

When it was discovered that these letters had already been allocated to the Textiles Institute, an extra " I " was added to each set of letters, standing for " Incorporated ".

SKC was founded and established in 1976 as previous name of " Sunkyung Chemicals Ltd " ( Korean: 선경화학 ( 주 )), which was a successor of " Sunkyung Textiles " ( Korean: 선경합섬 ), the matrix for the SK Group nowadays.

In 2009, Tennet was appointed chief executive of industry development organisation Textiles New Zealand.

By the 1930s, Huntingdon was home to a small but thriving textile industry founded by Alex Fawcett & Hiram Leach as Leach Textiles.

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.

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

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

Beside the eight main departments of Ceramics and Glass, Fine Art, Graphic Design & Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture & Furniture Design, Textiles, Metal Design, and Art Education ; the Department of Colour and Form was founded in 1983 with the purpose of educating the students in a fine art foundations curriculum modelled on the Bauhaus ' introductary course.

Berlei ( UK ) called in a receiver in November 1985, subsequently it was purchased by Courtaulds Textiles.

In March 2000, Courtaulds Textiles was sold to Sara Lee.

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.