The Museum’s Textile Collection contains over four thousand patent models. The collection includes many examples of carding machines, spinning machines, knitting machines, rope making machines, looms, ...

One man could spin 50 strands of yarn using this machine. This machine was made at the loomshop of the Rhodes family of Diggle near Saddleworth, and was used at Helmshore Textile Mill for spinning ...

Cartwright decided to design his own machine and go into the textile industry. Since machines for spinning thread already existed, Cartwright tried something else. The machine Cartwright developed ...

Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu govt will release a new textile policy within ten days, minister for handlooms and textiles R Gandhi said in Coimbatore on .

Early American industry was limited to small-scale, home-based production until the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812 spurred local manufacturing. Key developments included Slater's Mill, which ...