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unusual facts about Textiles



AlagappaNagar

In 1937 Dr. Alagappa Chettiar started Cochin Textiles, later Alagappa Textiles at Pudhukaddu near Thrissur in Kerala.

Ally Capellino

After studying fashion and textiles at Middlesex University, Alison Lloyd designed clothes destined for M&S at Courtaulds' central design studio, before launching Ally Capellino in 1980 with her then partner Jonathan Platt.

ARCH Academy of Design

Arch is a Member of various prestigious consortia’s like: IFFTI (The International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes), the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA).

Arvind Narottambhai Lalbhai

Arvind Narottambhai Lalbhai (April 3, 1918 – 2007) was son of Narrotam Lalbhai one the three brothers who founded the Arvind Mills in 1931, which today is amongst the top textiles companies of India and is the flagship company of the Rs. 2,000 crore Lalbhai Group.

Askrigg

Askrigg's prosperity peaked in the eighteenth century when trade in textiles and knitting was most lucrative and the village supported many craftsmen and gained a reputation for clockmaking.

Bagn Bygdesamling

The permanent display consists of artifacts from both the Stone Age and Iron Age, textiles and clothing, furniture and kitchen items and artifacts from the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.

Biotextile

Antiseptic biotextiles are textiles used in fighting against cutaneous bacterial proliferation.

Bizarre silk

The development of bizarre designs among the English silk weavers of Spitalfields can be dated quite closely based on surviving textiles and documents.

Bombay Dyeing

Bombay Dyeing (full name: The Bombay Dyeing & Mfg. Co. Ltd., established 1879) is the flagship company of the Wadia Group, engaged mainly into the business of Textiles.

Dhaka Dynamites

The industries under this Group include Textiles, Basic Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Jute, Marine Foods, Real Estate and Development.

Dhatrigram

Today, finely woven feather-touch textiles and saris in exotic designs and colours are being produced in the vast weaving belt of Shantipur, Phulia, Samudragarh, Dhatrigram and Ambika Kalna—each centre producing superb fabrics in its own unique weaving style.

Dominion Textile

The Dominion Textiles' buildings appeared once as a key feature in 1981 Frédéric Bach's short animated movie Crac!, relating the industrialization and urbanization of rural Quebec.

Douangdeuane Bounyavong

She is the widow of Outhine Bounyavong and has written poems, several textiles books and novels and transcribed numerous traditional stories, of which the best-known is Kam Pha Phi Noi ('The Little Orphan and the Spirit’).

European Union-Indonesia trade relations

Indonesia mostly exports to the EU agricultural products and processed resources, mainly palm oil, fuels and mining products, textiles and furniture.

Five Women Go Back to Work

She is an experienced designer having worked both directly on textiles and on design software such as Quark and Photoshop.

Florence Meyer Blumenthal

In 1952 Marrot won in 1952, the French Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor), (Chevalier) — and her textiles continue under license to diverse companies including Nike, Anthropologie and the handbag maker, Hayden-Harnett.

Franses

Jack Franses (1927–2010), English expert on Islamic art, carpets and textiles.

Georgian era

The so-called March of the Blanketeers saw 400 spinners and weavers march from Manchester to London in March 1817 to hand the Government a petition.

History Museum of Armenia

# in Lyon, Museum of Textiles and Antiquities – “Armenian Textiles”

Indego Africa

Nicole Miller and her design team went to Rwanda to purchase the bracelets and textiles from women in the villages of Cocoki and Covanya and agreed to donate 15% of the proceeds to Indego Africa.

Jerry Sherlock

Sherlock left textiles to establish his own film production company, within six-months of establishing his company he had produced his first film, Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981, starring Michelle Pfeiffer (in one of her first major roles), Peter Ustinov and Angie Dickinson.

John Knox Stewart

; vice president of the Amsterdam Board of Trade; member of the New York State Assembly (Montgomery Co.) in 1890; elected as a Republican to the 56th and 57th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1903; resumed the manufacture of textiles and continued in that business until his death in Amsterdam, N.Y. and is buried in Greenhill Cemetery.

L'Aiguillon

The main industries in the 19th and 20th centuries were, as is the case in all of Olmes Country, were those of horn comb manufacturing (formerly made of boxwood) and spinning.

Lhuntse District

This region is renowned as a textiles producing region, and also as the ancestral homeland of the Bhutanese royal family.

LVR Industrial Museum

Ratingen: Textilfabrik Cromford (textiles factory), the first factory in continental Europe, named after the Cromford Mill

Manyo Botanical Garden, Nara

The site also contains a Wisteria Garden, Camellia Garden, Iris Garden, and a Five Grain Garden which collects grain plants used for food, textiles, or dyes in Man'yōshū times.

Mari Lyn Salvador

Her study of these textiles and the people who create them has been the foundation for a career in museums that has recently culminated in the directorship at the San Diego Museum of Man.

Methuen

Methuen Treaty, a 1703 treaty on wine and textiles trade between Portugal and England

Muang Sing

The Tai Lue cotton weavers in villages such as Nong Boua and Xieng Yun make dyes consisting of a blend of leaves, flowers, insects and wood and weave traditional cotton textiles.

Objet d'art

Thus the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London describes its collection as follows: "The National Maritime Museum's collection of objet d’art comprises over 800 objects. These are mostly small decorative art items that fall outside the scope of the Museum’s ceramic, plate, textiles and glass collections."

Old Third District Courthouse

When whaling declined in New Bedford, to be replaced by textiles, the bank moved to larger quarters downtown where it has remained ever since.

Parramatta High School

TAS (Subjects: Design & Technology, Graphics Technology, Engineering Studies, Information Processes and Technology, Software Design, Food Technology, Textiles Technology, Hospitality - VET, Community & Family Studies)

Paule Marrot

In 1973, Marrot exhibited 82 fabrics and tablecloths at the Exposition au Musée d’impression sur Etoffe de Mulhouse (Museum of Printed Textiles at Mulhouse), working with Fauve painter Raoul Dufy.

Philadelphia University

In 1880, they formed the Philadelphia Association of Manufacturers of Textile Fabrics, with Theodore C. Search as its president, to fight for higher tariffs on imported textiles and to educate local textile leaders.

Pierre Raymond

It also helped to form an organization of people involved in the cultivation of cotton plants and in textile production, now known as the « Corporación de Recuperación Comunera del Lienzo » (Corporation for the Revival of the Traditional Cotton Textiles).

Politehnica metro station

The station also services the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Bucharest and its campus, the Apaca textiles factory and the headquarters of Vodafone Romania.

Putting-out system

He contracted up to 200 domestic workers, who came to his house to get the raw material and returned after a couple of weeks with textiles, that local pedlars from the city of Borås then bought and went out to sell among other things around Sweden and Norway.

R. L. Shep

Later, between 1983 and 2004, Shep made several trips to Bhutan and Northeastern India; collecting and studying Bhutanese and Northeastern Indian Naga textiles, particularly from the Maram tribe, exploring design themes that remain consistent, persisting in the work even as traditions change over time.

Recreo

The city's economy is driven mainly by industries that export their products to other countries and the rest of the country, which are: food industries, Arcor, clothing, Fabrizzi; armed accumulator, Plaka, footwear, Willy; appliances, Barbero, textiles, Sabri and Tejica, minerals, ores of the Playground.

Rezia Wahid

Wahid has also taught at Warwick School for Boys as the Art, Design and Textiles teacher and now at Frederick Bremer School Specialist Engineering College (an amalgamation of Warwick School for Boys and Aveling Park School) as well as a form tutor.

San Baudelio de Berlanga

The scenes of the Life of Christ are unusual in Spanish painting at this period; these are in American museums, while smaller elements including scenes of hunting and falconry and decorative copies of textiles are in Madrid as well as New York.

Shahida Ahmed

Her father came to England from Pakistan to work as a weaver and soon established his own business, Shahzad Textiles, in Nelson and her mother she says 'was very creative.

Sonepuri Sari

Padmashri Kailash Chandra Meher, of Western Odisha was working as an Art Designer in Weaver Service Centre Bhubaneswar, under Development Commissioner Handloom, New Delhi, Ministry of Textiles, Govt.

Sookmyung Women's University

The permanent collection of the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum includes votive textiles, ecclesiastical robes, military uniforms, folding screens, wedding garments, chair and table coverings, rank insignia, and various types of clothing, costume accessories, and household furnishings used by all social classes.

Sudene

In the state of Ceará, a new perspective was adopted: Sudene's incentives helped form a textiles industrial area, around the capital of the state, Fortaleza.

Surya Group

It focuses on supplying textiles and accessories, manufactured in China, India and the United Arab Emirates, to markets in Russia.

Textiles of Bhutan

The history of Bhutanese textiles becomes more evident in the last century.

The Three Hostages

Next day he tells Greenslade all, and bids him remember where he drew his phrases, two of which, concerning a blind woman spinning and a barn in Norway, matched verses from the poem, while the third in Greenslade's speech referred to a curiosity shop run by an elderly Jew, which seems to bear no correspondence to the poem's reference to the "Fields of Eden".

Zara Home

Zara Home is a company belonging to the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to the manufacturing of home textiles.


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