World War II provided some relief for the Easthampton economy, as several of the older textile companies as well as newer heavy manufacturing corporations received another round of federal contracts.

More than one-third of its population was " on relief ", as only three of its major textile corporations remained active.

This argument was strongest in the industrial North of England and in the textile industries where outdoor relief was a more effective method of dealing with cyclical unemployment as well as being a more cost effective method.

Evidence of this process is seen by the textile relief on the reverse side of objects and is sometimes referred to as " lost-wax, lost textile ".

The WTUL's semi-official relationship with the American Federation of Labor was also strained when the United Textile Workers, an AFL affiliate, insisted that it stop providing relief for Lawrence, Massachusetts textile workers who refused to return to work during the strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World ; some WTUL leaders complied, while others refused, denouncing both the AFL and the WTUL for its acquiescence in strikebreaking activities.

Its prominent detail is the relief ornamentation on its textile blocks, inspired by the symmetrical reliefs of Mayan buildings in Uxmal.

They are most commonly available from manufacturers providing paper tubes for use in textile factories, as in the case with the disaster relief shelters project in Ahmedabad, India.

This program is based on the policy of designing and building efficient machines which will help produce better textile values -- fabrics whose cost in relation to quality, fashion and utility provide the consumer with better textile products for the money.

Because the bobbin-to-cone winding process is a relatively high-cost operation for the mill, the almost complete automation provided by the Uniconer can mean important economies in textile production, at the same time upgrading quality.

The person using these tests must determine which combination of procedures is practical for any specific item in order to evaluate the dimensional changes of textile fabrics or garments after laundering procedures commonly used in the home or commercial laundry.

Starch is used in the paper, textile, and food-processing industries and in a multitude of other manufacturing operations.

Point is that developing countries often build up a textile industry first, need encouragement to get on their feet.

Gradual, controlled expansion of the world's textile trade is what President Kennedy wants.

In veiled terms, that's what the Kennedy Administration is saying to the American textile industry.

The town is a former centre of the cotton and textile machinery industries.

* Calcium permanganate ( Ca ( MnO < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub >) is used in liquid rocket propellant, textile production, as a water sterilizing agent and in dental procedures.

One medieval European example in textile form is the Bayeux Tapestry.

Crochet technique consumes more thread than comparable textile production methods and cotton is well suited to crochet.

" In the same section, Semper confesses his ignorance of the subject of crochet but believes strongly that it is a technique of great value as a textile technique and possibly something more.

Calico in British usage is a plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

The leading industry is machinery, followed by chemical industry ( plastic production, pharmaceuticals ), while mining, metallurgy and textile industry seemed to be losing importance in the past two decades.

This is not to belittle many other inventions, particularly in the textile industry.

The manufacture of textile machines drew craftsmen from these trades and is the origin of the modern engineering industry.

Macrame, one kind of textile, is generated exclusively through the use of knotting, instead of knits, crochets, weaves or felting.

Macramé can produce self-supporting three dimensional textile structures, as well as flat work, and is often used ornamentally or decoratively.

* The 1979 film Norma Rae, directed by Martin Ritt, is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Jordan's successful attempt to unionize her textile factory.

The global economic crisis hit the Lesotho economy hard through loss of textile exports and jobs in the sector due largely to the economic slowdown in the United States which is a major export destination, reduced diamond mining and exports, including weak prices for diamonds ; drop in SACU revenues due to the economic slowdown in the South African economy, and reduction in worker remittances due to weakening of the South African economy and contraction of the mining sector and related job losses in South Africa.

The government is trying to modernize the sugar and textile industries, which in the past were overly dependent on trade preferences, while promoting diversification into such areas as information and communications technology, financial and business services, seafood processing and exports, and free trade zones.

The rivalry with Liverpool is rooted in competition between the cities during the Industrial Revolution when Manchester was famous for its textile industry while Liverpool was a major port.

A side effect of textile optical whitening is to make the treated fabrics more visible with Night Vision Devices than non-treated ones.

Lint is the common name of visible accumulations of textile fibers and other materials, usually found on and around clothing.

The village had a number of corn, flour and flax mills, the remains of which are visible today, and has retained a tradition of textile manufacture through Saintfield Yarns.

Purses are rarely visible, and seem to have been made of textile matching the dress, or perhaps tucked into the sash.

But more important, we believe, it must concentrate on the development of entirely new concepts in textile processing as do the Unifil loom winder and our more recent Uniconer automatic coning machine.

As in many other industries, rising costs and intense competition, both domestic and foreign, have exerted increasing pressure on earnings of the textile industry in recent years.

Special depreciation on new textile machinery may be allowed.

Downer said that he intended to elaborate further on Australian Prime Minister John Howard's promise of a seven-year extension of the SPARTECA – TCF scheme, which assists Fiji's textile, clothing, and footwear industry.

In pre-industrial cities, craftsmen tended to form associations based on their trades, confraternities of textile workers, masons, carpenters, carvers, glass workers, each of whom controlled secrets of traditionally imparted technology, the " arts " or " mysteries " of their crafts.

The nation's international economy was based on the wool trade, in which the produce of the sheepwalks of northern England was exported to the textile cities of Flanders, where it was worked into cloth.

Glasgow, on the river Clyde, was the base for the tobacco and sugar trade with an emerging textile industry.

In the early 18th century, British textile manufacture was based on wool which was processed by individual artisans, doing the spinning and weaving on their own premises.

The development of bleaching powder ( calcium hypochlorite ) by Scottish chemist Charles Tennant in about 1800, based on the discoveries of French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, revolutionised the bleaching processes in the textile industry by dramatically reducing the time required ( from months to days ) for the traditional process then in use, which required repeated exposure to the sun in bleach fields after soaking the textiles with alkali or sour milk.

During this period new industries developed with their focus on the domestic market: mechanical engineering, power utilities, papermaking and textile industries.

He went on to own thirteen textile mills.

While on a trip to England in 1810, Newburyport merchant Francis Cabot Lowell was allowed to tour the British textile factories, but not take notes.

Realising the War of 1812 had ruined his import business but that a market for domestic finished cloth was emerging in America, he memorised the design of textile machines, and on his return to the United States, he set up the Boston Manufacturing Company.

* 1912 – Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.

Multiple rows of holes are punched on each card and the many cards that compose the design of the textile are strung together in order.

In September and October 1917, there were strikes by the Moscow and Petrograd workers, the miners of the Donbas, the metalworkers of the Urals, the oil workers of Baku, the textile workers of the Central Industrial Region, and the railroad workers on 44 different railway lines.

The loss of silver during washing varies between textile technologies, and the resultant effect on the environment is not yet fully known.

This dual nature of the Swazi economy, with high productivity in textile manufacturing and in the industrialized agricultural TDLs on the one hand, and declining productivity subsistence agriculture ( on SNL ) on the other, may well explain the country ’ s overall low growth, high inequality and unemployment.