Quotes About Textiles

These actions have arcane names like braking, retting, swingling (or scutching), and hackling or heckling, but essentially they involve pounding, stripping, soaking, and otherwise separating the pliant inner fiber, or bast, from its woodier stem. It is striking to think that when we heckle a speaker today we use a term that recalls the preparation of flax from the early Middle Ages.

Strong European states had simultaneously created barriers to the import of foreign textiles just as they built a system for the appropriation of foreign technology. By orchestrating economic processes in Asia, Africa, and the Americas as well as in Europe, Europeans gained the paradoxical ability to direct the global trade in Indian textiles while at the same time keeping Asian cloth increasingly out of Europe, instead trading the products in Africa and elsewhere beyond Europe's shores.

By 1830, one in six workers in Britain labored in cottons.

Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them.

When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.

My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space.

I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.

The most relevant precursor to today's computers is the Jacquard loom,

You see, it was largely a matter of tariffs. Export and import duties. Silk and cotton goods had seventy or eighty per cent tax slapped on them, and we were not allowed to retaliate.' Nazneen had drifted. She straightened the dining chairs and shivered at some remembered pleasure. 'The Dhaka looms were sacrificed,' said Chanu, 'so that the mills of Manchester could be born.' Nazneen came round to her duties. 'They were closed down by the British?

fille d'un riche fabricant de machines textiles qui avait fait fortune en partant de rien, au prix d'efforts et de sacrifices immenses consentis surtout par les autres.

Nineteenth-century children made work fun by having friends join in. In this "wool-picking bee," the kids got wool ready for spinning by picking out the sticks and burrs. "Talk and laugh," said Darlene, "but do a good job. You wouldn't want any twigs in there if your mom was knitting your woolen underwear!

No sculpture, no carving or bas-relief, almost no painting or drawing—the interiors are completely bare. What we do see are these huge mounds—and textiles.

Spanish merchants doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled the price and still sold their goods in the Americas for a third the cost of Spanish textiles. Incredibly, they sold silk from China—silk that had crossed two oceans!—in Spain for less than silk produced in Spain.

We no longer need fur for warmth and protection. There are plenty of textiles that provide that today. It's pure whim and vanity to choose to wear fur. It shows a level of ignorance or lack of concern that reflects poorly on the wearer.

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

The cultural authenticity of cloth arises not from the purity of its origins but from the ways in which individuals and groups turn textiles to their own purposes. Consumers, not producers, determine the meaning and value of textiles.

I'd rather be stitchin' than in the kitchen!

I'm itchin' to be stitchin'!

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

He understands muslin

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.