John Foster (1798–1879) was a British manufacturer of worsted cloth. He was the son of a colliery owner and farmer in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In 1819...
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Civil War John Foster, sound editor, see BAFTA Award for Best Sound John Foster (trade unionist), see Jeremy Dear John Foster (textile manufacturer) (1798–1879)...
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and manufacturer of textile machinery during the early Industrial Revolution, Atherton began his career by assisting Richard Arkwright and John Kay in...
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$72, for entry level wages, but unacceptably high according to textile manufacturers who are asking for a wage below $30. On 28 July 2010 it was announced...
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example of the Mandela Effect. The company is a vertically integrated manufacturer. In 2006, Fruit of the Loom acquired Russell Brands, LLC, a global company...
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Textile printing is the process of applying color to fabric in definite patterns or designs. In properly printed fabrics the colour is bonded with the...
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Cotton gin (redirect from Willy (textile machine))
handle into the roller cotton gin led to greatly expanded Indian cotton textile production during the Mughal era. It was reported that, with an Indian...
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Angeles Times that she was "sold" as an infant, and went through a series of foster homes. In April 1969, Kjell Qvale agreed to let Smith ride one of his horses...
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Reebok (redirect from J.W. Foster & Sons, Ltd.)
founded his business J.W. Foster in 1900; later he joined with his sons and changed the company name to J.W. Foster and Sons. Foster opened a small factory...
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Berkshire Hathaway (category History of the textile industry)
holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1839 as a textile manufacturer, it transitioned into a major conglomerate starting in 1965 under...
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The new Kennebunk Manufacturing Company merged with another Kennebunk manufacturer of similar travel items known as the Travelet Company after 1895. The...
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Industrial Revolution (section Textile manufacture)
William R. The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices of Cotton, Woolen, Silk, and Linen Manufacturers in the Colonial...
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(Hydrofoil) and Italian swimming suit manufacturer Jaked (all 100% polyurethane) in 2009. FINA's ban on non-textile suit came into effect in January 2010...
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(1756–1828) was an English cotton manufacturer. Samuel Oldknow Jnr, the eldest son of Samuel Oldknow Sr and Margery Foster, was born on 5 October 1756 in...
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Sustainable fashion (redirect from Sustainable textiles)
majority of fiber and textile marketed as bamboo on the market was actually viscose rayon derived from bamboo. Now manufacturers need to label such products...
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Tartan (redirect from Sett (textile))
ascribing a meaning to textile design that has more or less stuck: false as it is, the Sobieski-Stuarts fostered a myth of textile identification and implication...
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former home of the Draper Corporation, textile machine manufacturer. North Dighton, Massachusetts, former textile mill town, greatly expanded during the...
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William Ewart (1817–1889), linen manufacturer John Mulholland, 1st Baron Dunleath (1819–1895), textile manufacturer Sir Donald Currie (1825–1909), founder...
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John Caldwell Calhoun (/kælˈhuːn/; March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president...
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executed the order, but authorized Foster to pay sellers 10% and manufacturers 25% of the value of their seized goods. Foster, in the course of his duty, appealed...
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and we became Local 1874 of the Textile Workers affiliated with the Committee of Industrial Organizations led by John L. Lewis. During World War II, the...
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However, she asserted that she was free to marry, and indeed she married John E. Foster. Isaac, meanwhile, had renewed acquaintance with Isabella Eugenie Boyer...
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Baronet (1878–1966) – chairman of Joseph Dawson Ltd., cashmere textile manufacturers. Kiki Dee – (born 1947) singer, born Pauline Matthews in Little...
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Aloha shirt (category Textile arts of Hawaii)
motifs.[citation needed] The aloha shirt is currently[when?] the premier textile export of the Hawaii manufacturing industry.[citation needed] In 1946,...
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Shaw Industries (category Textile companies of the United States)
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is one of the world's largest carpet manufacturers with more than $6 billion in annual revenue and approximately 22,000 employees...
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Charity John James Martin — For services to Agriculture and Dairy Farming in Northern Ireland Sheila Ann Mason — For services to the Textile Industry...
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and manufacturer of specialised electronic components for industrial use. It is headquartered in Guildford, Surrey. It was founded in 1986 by John Curry...
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Archived from the original on 12 December 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2008. "Foster announces the future shape of local government" (Press release). Northern...
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escaped Nazi Germany, where his grandfather had been a successful textile manufacturer, and family intimates of Christopher Isherwood and Marlene Dietrich...
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national government body. In Piraiki-Patraiki v Commission, a group of Greek textile businesses, who exported cotton products to France, challenged a Commission...
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