As part of an NPR series on fashion, Leda Hartman takes a look at latest trends in textile technology.
Now, after two-and-a-half years of planning and seven months of stitching the coat, Mrs O'Connell is considering a career in textile art.
Because labour costs do not matter so much in textile-making these days.
Section 208 of the Implementation Act authorizes the President to take certain enforcement actions relating to trade with Panama in textile and apparel goods.
Snipers got custom-made suits, such as the sinister, mummer-like British coats on display here, but mass-produced infantry camouflage had to wait until advances in textile printing.
The greatest constraint comes in textile exports to rich countries.
Justin, a graduate of Cornell University with a degree in textile and apparel management, walked me through the various steps required to make one of their world-famous bespoke shirts.
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Yet once the global quota system for textiles is removed in 2005, rich countries may resort to trade-remedy rules to protect themselves from increases in textile imports from poor countries.
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The conglomerate originated in textile mills that once dotted the shoreline in places like Providence, Fall River and New Bedford, and managed to stay healthy by diversifying into aerospace operations such as Cessna business jets.
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After 1851, when for the first time a majority of Britons lived in the towns, it is more likely that our ancestors worked in textile factories, iron and steel plants, on the railways, as small shopkeepers and tradesmen or in the vast army of Victorian clerks.
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There's a historical basis of this in what happened in the textile industry in the early part of the 20th century.
"It is important to us that we do everything we can in the Congress to make in possible for you to continue to expand your textile relationship with the United States and while we are back there we will be working on trying to get a better opportunity for Bangladesh in the textile arena, " he said.
Sun found it in an enormous textile place in Korea.
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These technical changes will have real job-supporting economic benefits for thousands of American workers in our textile and apparel industry, and will help boost economic growth in these developing regions.
Bradford's Pakistanis began to arrive in the late 1950s to work in the textile industry.
Mr Bersani's first move after his victory was to visit workers in a textile factory.
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The province of Prato has 10, 900 resident Chinese nationals, many of them working in the textile industry.
He says (citing data from UNIDO, whatever that is) that China employed 7.3 million people in its textile industry as recently as 1997.
"We're not putting plants in Asia because we want to take advantage of the cheap labor costs, " explains Peter, though he does note that almost every scientist in his Textile Effects lab is a woman with an advanced degree.
"In reality, we have issues within the supply chain because there are several systems out there, and we have breaks within the data process, " said Reinhold Wawrzynek, chief executive of Mobiwork AG, a Munich-based system-software provider in the textile industry.
From the designer in San Francisco looking to source textile suppliers in Thailand to the London consultant connecting with clients in Milan, the possibilities are endless.
For many textile companies, turning to the military is a way to survive in the beleaguered textile industry, which has been hammered by cheaper Asian exports.
If the laid off auto worker in Detroit, or the high school student in Little Rock, or the former textile marketer in Greensboro, N.
In Indonesia, textile, furniture and electronics manufacturers are shouting about imports from China that followed the lifting of tariffs in a regional free-trade pact.
Sunita lived in an old textile warehouse, a big, echoing building that was due to be converted into apartments.
This first generation drove buses and worked in foundries and textile factories.
Hired away from the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, where she was textile curator in its department of Eastern art, Ms. Barnes has researched how textile techniques and designs spread, often disseminated by merchants plying the sea-lanes.
For its part, old Labour will be mindful that the word "socialist" first appeared in November 1827 in the Co-operative magazine - a vehicle for the ideas of Robert Owen, who sought to run his textile mill in Lanark on co-operative lines.
Confronted in 1994 with escalating power costs, Tulsi Tanti's young textile business was in dire straits.
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