18 Textile Quotes for You to Enjoy

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. Alvin Toffler

Saying Business Somebody Revolution Think Broke London Some Entire Over New Like Economy Industrial Industrial Revolution Because Textile Manchester Manufacturers

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any. Ted Yoho

You World Free Example Carolina Favor Out Find Perfect Perfect Example Free Trade NAFTA Economy Trade How Am Textile North North American American North Carolina Any Expense American Economy Them Ask Worked Workers Engaging American Workers Agreement Growing

One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work. Ann Leckie

Work Matter Tea Research Awesome About Writer Textile Ants Being Anything Chocolate Production Productive Nearly Things

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products! Christien Meindertsma

Single Year Field Tea Other Enough Hundreds Weaving Bought Towels Industrial Enable Textile Items Owned Dutch Producer Producing Production Products Now Grown-Up Level Museum

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry. Francisco Costa

Fashion Parents Factory Had Industry Textile Linked Fashion Industry

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs. Howard Coble

Fear Will Jobs Demise Accelerate Domestic Textile

Baba Seva - Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman - was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant at a textile factory, and her mother was a nurse. Her parents moved to Moscow with her and her brothers when she was a child. Keith Gessen

Mother Father Parents Nurse Ukraine Born Brothers Small Factory Small Town Moscow Town She Textile Accountant Child Moved Her

My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery. Lisa Jewell

Art Father His Textile Office Shop Gallery Agent Below

Because America doesn't have a strong textile industry anymore, we have to bring things like fabrics, zippers, and color tape into the U.S., and having so many elements involved in production adds to the amount of waste. You might have some things coming from Italy, a button coming from China, or lining coming from Korea; it's just endless. Maria Cornejo

You Strong Adds Fabrics Some Some Things Having Color Like Involved Industry Because Korea Coming Tape Italy Lining Textile America Endless Just Anymore China Might Production Many Elements Waste Amount Things Button Bring

Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there's no store. There is no store! Mark Waid

Me Own Sights Airport Signing Restaurants Guys Pick Driving Come Around Vermont Years Years Ago Version Textile Up Short Store Younger Asked Who Showing Start Two Mills

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing. Mian Muhammad Mansha

You Business Better Adding Everything Scale Run Spinning Some Weaving Only Integrate Textile Vertically Stitching Than Did Maybe Decided Processing Packing Realized Early Competitors

In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the protective shield from lower-priced foreign competition. The sugar industry supports sugar tariffs; textile mills lobby for tariffs on foreign clothing. Stephen Moore

Competition Every Sugar Lobby Case Strongly Almost Supported Supports Protective Industry Foreign Imports Shield Imposed Domestic Textile Tariff Getting Whenever Tax Clothing Quota Mills

I'm not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources. Suzanne Lee

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world. Tadashi Yanai

Best Technology World Country Think Textile Japanese Manufacturing

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