That lawn mower you use to cut your grass has been centuries in the making. Yes, really. The history of the lawn mower is ...

An exhibition celebrating the past and present of Bradford's textile industry is set to open on Saturday. The display, named Woven Through Time: Bradford's Textile Industry - Past and Present ...

The 1830s were marked by a series of involuntary removals by the federal government of American Indians from southeastern lands in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama to what was then called Indian ...

Jane Eyre Style GalleryMia Wasikowska's Jane Eyre (arriving at Rochester’s estate, Thornfield) wears a dress "made from an imported, printed textile from the U.S.," and a bonnet "made from ...

The rise of fashion production goes back to the very first sewing machine, created in the 1830s France by inventor and tailor Bartélemy Thimonier. The arduous task of hand stitching had been ...

Recent legislation will prompt a feasibility study for creating a textile museum in the mill towns of Franklinville or Erwin. A Randolph County group owns a machinery collection from New England.

A 1830s post office building in downtown Dexter was established by the town's founder and used as a library, a restaurant space, and much more. The city is considering renovating it with public ...

Taylor Swift is facing backlash over saying she wanted to live in the 1830s “but without all the racists” on her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.“ On the track ...

Cotton was 'king' in the plantation economy of the Deep South. The cotton economy had close ties to the Northern banking industry, New England textile factories and the economy of Great Britain.

An exhibition in Kolkata showcases historic textiles of undivided Bengal, from jamdani and brocades to lesserknown cotton weaves ...

It was not part of Massachusetts until 1862. Lambert will talk about how the city evolved from its early textile industry into a major textile center. Fall River industry in the 1830s will be ...

Paisley’s rich textile history is being brought back to life in pioneering new project Students at the University of Glasgow have conserved items of clothing dating from the 1830s through to the ...