History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 145
ated French-man, Jacquard, had given the weaving in-dustry that accomplished such a revolu-tionary improvement in the weaving oflighter fabrics was now applied to theheavy carpet texture. The adoption of the Jacquard attach-ment w^as the immediate companion of an-other epoch-making improvement… … Weaving Mill of Bigelow-Hartford Carpet about Philadelphia. Thereafter small handloom factories flourished for a time andpassed away. The first practical advance made oc-curred in 1825, when the Lowell Manufac-turing Company bought a mill at Medway,Mass., belonging to Alexander Wright, andmoved it…
Textile industry -- United States · Textile fabrics -- United States
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