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Whole Cloth - http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/
Web version of an educational project, aimed at widening public understanding of the development of the American textile industry. Extensive essays, illustrations and history resources on the industrialization of textile manufacturing, cloth dyeing techniques and fibers. |
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Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts - http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/21boott/21boott.htm
Classroom-ready lesson plan about the development of the Boott mill to understand the workings of the industrial system at Lowell. |
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Textiles in Ghana - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3427
Learning modules about the technique of hand woven and printed kente and adinkra, and machine woven and waxed cotton printed fabrics of Ghana. Includes the history of kente and adinkra fabrics and their place in a changing market. From the Open University's Learning Space web site. |
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Textile Mills, Mill Villages and Mill Life in North Carolina: A Sociological Perspective - http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/study/textile.html
University of North Carolina Collection Catalog finding aid and reading list designed to assist in the research on sociological aspects of textile mills, mill villages, and mill life in North Carolina. Prepared by Leah McGinnis. |
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Children at Work: Exposing Child Labor in the Cotton Mills - http://www.lib.unc.edu/stories/cotton/about/
Lesson plan for classes in art and social studies of grade 7 to 10, containing oral histories in video and text form of child labor in US cotton textile mills of the Carolinas in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Includes a history of the development of cotton textile mills and mill villages. Developed by graduate assistants from the University of North Carolina. |
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Textiles: From Domestic to Factory Production - http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/history/01.TU.01/
Learning module about the history of the British textile industry from the early days of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th Century to the end of child labor in the 1830's. From Making the Modern World's web site. |
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Spinning Yarns, Telling Tales about Textiles - http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/spinning_yarns/ATZ_SpinningYarns_Sep1980.pdf
Lesson aid designed by the Smithsonian Institute for elementary and secondary education, exploring the storytelling potential of textiles from different times and places, and the ways textiles can be used to enliven and enrich many areas of the curriculum. Includes a description of the steps involved in making a piece of cloth, a history of textiles, and a bibliography of resources. |
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The Textile Industry in Connecticut - http://www.cthistoryonline.org/cdm-cho/cho/journeys/j_livehd_text_proc.html
Database of 19th and 20th century photographs, drawings and prints of the silk, cotton and wool textile industry in Connecticut, USA, depicting social, business, political, educational, cultural and civic life, including curriculum materials for grades 7-12 and links to related sites. From Connecticut History Online. |
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Dundee, Jute and Empire - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3432
Learning modules for teaching the history of Dundee, Scotland, UK, and its involvement in the jute industry which from the 1860's became the dominant industry of the city. From the Open University's Learning Space web site. |
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Follow the Yarn - http://www.cleo.net.uk/followtheyarn/
Part of the Digital History for Preston Schools project, dedicated to the history of the Preston area cotton textile industry. Includes a timeline, a searchable database, glossary of terms, interactive games, and a list of classroom activities. |
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Clothing And Health. An Elementary Textbook Of Home Making - http://chestofbooks.com/crafts/needlework/Clothing-And-Health/index.html
Textbook for textiles and garment sewing classes, written by Helen Kinne and published in 1916. Includes extensive chapters on yarn spinning and cloth weaving, printing and finishing. |
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Weaving of Early Man - http://www.pecosrio.com/displays/weaving/WEAVING.HTM
Teaching aid of the Pecos Rio Grande Museum of Early Man about the history of the development of weaving techniques in 9000 BC, based on the findings in the Zueberbueler shelter. |
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Colonial American Spinning & Weaving Study Guides - http://www.handsonhistoryinc.org/HOH-Page12.html
Collection of study guides on the history of flax cultivation, and linen and wool fiber processing and yarn spinning in from the English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and ended at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. From Hands on History, Inc. |
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Silk Weaving - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22161
Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles, providing a detailed history of the silk textile industry in Britain in general and the County of Middlesex in particular, from the reign of Henry VIII until the 1860's treaty with France which allowed French silks to come in duty free. |
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White Linen Garments of the Priest - http://www.ccg.org/english/c/cb063.html
Lesson paper reviewing the history of linen, the white linen garments of the priesthood, the times that only the High Priest wore linen garments, what the priests will wear when the temple sacrifices are started again, and what our white linen garments should be today and in the future. From the Christian Churches of God. Authors: Willard D. Boettcher and others. |