textile industry

Presents the 1848 novel about Mary Barton, the daughter of a Manchester mill worker and trade unionist who is forced to consider her real allegiances and feelings when Jem Wilson, a man whose love she has rejected, is accused of killing Henry Carson, the son of one of the mill owners, who has caught Mary's eye.

A fictional account of a young English immigrant's efforts to build America's first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and machines in England.

Presents a study of the lives of a group of men, known as the Boston Associates, who prospered as merchants at the start of the nineteenth century and later invested heavily in the American textile industry.

An introduction to manufacturing methods and uses of cloth made from natural or synthetic fibers.

Imagines the lives and intrigues of the men and women involved in the creation of the fifteenth-century "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries.

Discusses fabrics, the history of the textile industry, and the state of the industry today.

Lilly Armbruster is forced to work for the powerful mill owners who caused her family's financial ruin, but her feelings of revenge become clouded when she discovers that her former fiance Matthew Cheever is working for those whom she despises.

A historical novel that imagines the lives and intrigues of the men and women involved in the creation of the fifteenth-century "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries.

An overview of life in a nineteenth-century town in which most people worked in the textile mill, including their housing, food, clothing, schools, and everyday activities.