Sentences with phrase «from textile mills»

About 2,500 sq metres (26,909 sq ft) of fabric from textile mills in Surat, India, hang from a plywood frame 24 metres (78ft) long and 12 metres high.

He also transformed Berkshire Hathaway twice: First from a textile mill into a diversified insurance company and then into the vast conglomerate.

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Taking advantage of bottom - scraping prices, it bought two plants focused on specialty papers — wallpaper and currency — and converted a third one, in Quebec, from photographic paper into a supplier of pulp to rayon - making textile mills.

Rice is from the sticks of Woodruff, S.C., where he once fed cotton fibers onto conveyer belts in a textile mill for $ 5.25 an hour.

Water power provided the early settlers with not only transportation, but also the ability to mill corn and other grains, to saw and shape wood from the forests, and to loom textiles from wool, cotton and flax.

From low - cost coal fields in Pennsylvania, coal was brought to Utica on the Chenango Canal and powered steam driven looms in greatly expanded mills that made Oneida County a textile center of the county until after World War II.

All I knew — given the limited range of professional lives I could observe from my hometown of textile mills and surrounding tobacco fields — was that I wanted to teach.

The development of the Yorkshire Terrier started as settlers came from Scotland to Yorkshire in the 1800's to work in the textile mills and mines, bringing with them their little dogs that hunted rats and served as their companions living with them in their homes.

This is a show of textiles taking conceptual themes from the Donald Judd installation in Marfa at the Chinati foundation «100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982 - 1986»

Working with clients ranging from small companies like the Swiss textile mill Rohner to global megacorporations like the Ford Motor Company, both firms are showing that designers attuned to this cradle - to - cradle philosophy can replicate nature's closed - loop systems in the worlds of commerce and community.

The oil - burning facilities from which the textile mill gets energy have few emission controls, so the Turners Falls plant will pollute less.

Thousands of visitors each year visit the textile mills from the early days.

In this living room, the heart - pine flooring came from a South Carolina textile mill.

Fibers are harvested from fields and made into textiles by family - owned mills throughout the United States and Europe.