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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Textile Production"”.
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Textile production in Britain during the first millennium B.C.
This project investigates the textile production sequences in first millennium B.C. Britain and explores aspects of the organisation of this production in local, regional and interregional contexts. In addition to presenting a comprehensive description of the technology based on fabric remains and …
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Textile Production Tools from the Excavations at Caere, 2012 — 2014.
It is the aim of this thesis to present the textile production tools from the 2012–2014 excavations at Caere, an Etruscan city northwest of Rome. While all textile tool finds — loom weights, spools, and spindle whorls — are presented, the discussion is focused on complete loom weights. The likely …
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Ritual threads : cultic evidence related to household textile production at Iron Age Tell Halif.
… the Lahav Research Project unearthed the textile workshop from Stratum VIB at Field V. The textile workshop, attributed to the end of the eighth century B.C.E., yielded numerous burned loom weights and a few cult objects, such as a Judean horse and rider figurine fragment, a kernos oil …
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“Picb’il”: digital repatriation and textile production as cultural revival in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala.
Textile production on back strap looms in the Maya region of Central America has continued uninterrupted for over three thousand years. Forming the backbone of a rich cultural tradition, the craftwork of Maya women remains an indigenous tradition in the Maya region to survive the Spanish conquest …
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Visible Tools, Invisible Crafts: An analysis of textiles tools, textile production, and textile organisation along the south coast of Iron Age Britain
Textile production was an essential element of society in prehistory, supplying people with clothing, furnishings, and utilitarian items like sails, straps, and sacking. The fragility of textiles means few examples of prehistoric fabrics survive in Britain and northwest Europe outside of some …
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Textile precision for customized assemblies
… and materials with stitch-level control, textiles are becoming an increasingly desirable method of producing mass customized items. However, current textile machines lack the ability to transfer three-dimensional information between digital models and production with the same level of …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
<p>In "Material Culture and Domestic Texts: Textiles in the Texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps," I draw from recently revised notions of the discourse of domesticity to argue that the imagery of textile production, consumption, and containment enables authors to configure …
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The South African textile industry : opportunities and constraints with particular reference to environmental issues and eco-labelling
… the key issues facing the South African textile industry as it attempts to re-align itself, from an industry that operated in a highly protected manufacturing and policy environment, to an industry confronted with globalisation, increased competition, improved foreign market access and …
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Growing pains: scale and mission in the fair trade textile sector
… examines the recent incorporation of factory production into fair trade textile production via a new fair trade certification program called the Apparel and Linens Program, launched by FairTrade USA. I argue that this expansion in the scale of production results in a dilution of fair trade’s …
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To Learn Weaving Below the Rock: Making Zapotec Textiles and Artisans in Teotitlan Del Valle, Mexico
… economy most recently geared towards exporting textiles to the Southwestern US are described as constituting the discursive and economic context of Zapotec textile production. I argue that the positions most Teotiteco weavers hold in the relations of production are exploitative, and our images …
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An Assessment of the Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the U.S. Textile Industry's Production Activities: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
… Canada, and Mexico created a barrier-free production and trade zone in North America. Surrounding the implementation of NAFTA, a great volume of public, political, and academic attention was given to the impact of the agreement on the aging U.S. textile industry with high labor costs. The …
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Epochs of Ecology: The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
… the relationship to agriculture, wool and textile production, and mining. By exploring these relationships historically through the lens of economics and ecology, we will characterize most aptly the rupture in ecology brought about by the capitalist mode.</p>
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Functional analysis of spindle whorls from the Castro culture of northwestern Portugal
… Iberia, may have spun into yarn for use in textile production. This study focuses on a collection of 106 spindle whorls from four sites in Northwestern Portugal: Cividade de Bagunte, Cividade de Terroso, Castro do Monte Padrão, and Castro de São Paio. Through analysis of the functional …
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Refashioning Difference: Costume and the Materiality of African and Afro-diasporan Cinemas
… historical link between the expansion of Western textile production and the extraction of resources from formerly colonised territories, particularly the African continent, which remains an attractive destination for cheap, often female manufacturing labour. My doctoral thesis brings these …
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The textile industry in early eighteenth century Lancashire
… before the arrival of the factory system of textile production. It is based on a county-wide study of occupations recorded in Church of England parish registers for the I 720s, a source which has, with the exception of a few localised case studies, hitherto been ignored by historians. Whilst …
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Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Warp Weighted Loom
… importance of weaving. Modern scholars can study textile production by focusing on the translation and possible implications of literary references, recorded archaeological finds, or representations of the weaving process on pottery. This work reports on experiments conducted using a model of the …
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Material matters : color, pattern, cognition, and perception in quilts from the Winedale Collection
… women’s experience with domestic and industrial textile production, and with the major products of both: woven coverlets and printed cottons, respectively. Through formal analyses of ten quilts from the Winedale Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, I trace a general progression from …
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The places, power, and politics of Uganda’s secondhand clothing industry
… a ban on used clothing to boost national textile production. In turn, the US is threatening to revoke Uganda’s preferential trade rates under AGOA. Underpinning these debates are questions around development, international influence, and national autonomy. Left out of these debates, …
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Keller-Segel-Type Models and Kinetic Equations for Interacting Particles: Long-Time Asymptotic Analysis
… the fibre lay-down process in non-woven textile production. Further, we prove convergence to equilibrium with an explicit rate. This part of the thesis is an extension of previous work which considered the case of a stationary conveyor belt. Adding the movement of the belt, the global …
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Urban narrative and reinvention in Hicks-Logan-Sawyer : creating an effective gateway to a vital New Bedford
… in the early 19th century, and then as a major textile production century decades later. It continues to be one of the most important fishing ports in North America, but the fishing industry has not been enough to support the city's economy, and its fortunes have deteriorated in the …
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