Sentences with phrase «textile mills»

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.

Once a manufacturing powerhouse, the city's many historic textile mills have been adapted for new and diverse uses, and now house modern office space.

But to compete with the cheap labor in Chinese textile mills, he needs an inexpensive energy source.

In some ways, they resemble the 19th century Luddites — the English textile workers who destroyed labor saving machinery in textile mills.

She is above all a colourist, initially trained as a textile technician, she has worked as creative director and headbuyer for the likes of Lanvin, Gucci group, Stella McCartney, Rena Lange, and Solbiati developing ranges for textile mills or prestigious fashion brands since the start of her career in 1989 as a designer for Karl Lagerfeld.

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.

The redevelopment has begun of a once badly polluted former textile mill in Chicopee Massachusetts.

The Lofts at Harmony Mills West in its final phase as a project to turn former textile mills into housing Thursday Jan. 16, 2014, in Cohoes, NY.

Her invention isn't instantly attention - grabbing stuff for young people, but McCully draws children in by starting with Knight's childhood, when the young Mattie sketched prolifically, built inventions, and proposed safety devices for the New Hampshire textile mills where her family worked.

Thirsties uses only the best of USA - sourced components in order to reduce their carbon footprint, and to help support domestic textile mills.

Check out the studio of Ubiquitous, an advertising agency based in Manchester who have just completed a refurbishment of a space in a 19th century textile mill in a city that was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

«A lot of the fabric I'd chosen was made by Italian textile mills, all of which close for the summer.

Some issues are more immediately actionable — it's more likely that an audience will be able to push their representatives for action on climate change («An Inconvenient Sequel,» «Chasing Coral») than unionize textile mill laborers in the Indian state of Gujarat («Machines»), but the drive to motivate the audience, to instill within them a sense of consciousness of the material world around them that will alter their future life, is the same.

At the time of Buffett's initial purchase, Berkshire was an ailing textile mill.

Woven in the USA at a preeminent textile mill, this pillow cover is backed in natural - colored Belgium linen.

I'm off to the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, where long brick textile mills still stand along the banks of the Merrimack River.

In fact, the largest textile mill industry in the U.S. is in North Carolina.

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.

The buildings that now house MASS MoCA were a series of factories dating back to the Civil War, when they housed textile mills that churned out cloth for the Union Armies.

Some of the first textile mills I photographed reminded me of the hospital workshops, but while those places had long been abandoned, the mills were fully operational.

This has less do with quality, interest, page space or anything else than the simple fact that the exhibition is packed to the rafters, and in the generous confines of Mass MoCA's sprawling campus, housed in an old textile mill in North Adams, this is really saying something.

A few years after Lowell's death in 1823, a group of his associates founded the town of Lowell (about 20 miles north of Waltham) in his name and a series of textile mills under a new company name (the Merrimack Manufacturing Company).

In the early 1960s Berkshire Hathaway was a struggling textile mill that was unable to compete with cheap foreign suppliers.

Shares in the Berkshire Hathaway textile mill could be had for around $ 7.50 when Mr. Buffett first started buying the stock for himself and his partners.

A tennis player for six years, he works in a Shanghai textile mill and says he feels lucky if he gets to practice three or four times a week.

All Bummis diapers are made in their facility in Montreal, Canada, with textiles milled in Canada and the USA.

That's the Georgia textile mill whose unhappy former workers provided vivid testimony of the company's decline under Foley's stewardship.

As «King Cotton» and textile mills came to dominate the South's post-Civil War economy, many families converted all their farmland to cotton.

Everybody is anxiously waiting for the latest collection by this amazing textile mills and the wait is over because Shariq textiles is introducing its brand new eid collection in collaboration with Ayesha chottani as it always keep its promise of displaying seasonal and occasional collection.

Make your Eid day special and glamorous by wearing the wonderful designs of Firdous textile mills.

Vadiwala's embroidered chiffon collection 2015 by VS textile mills consists of three piece suits having 3 meter embroidered neck shirt, chiffon dupatta, and a 2.5 - meter trousers.

Expertly loomed in Italy at a preeminent family - owned textile mill, this reversible pillow cover features the same design on both sides.

A hundred years ago or so, farming land west of Charlotte, North Carolina was given over to giant textile mills.

Warren Buffett is thought to be the greatest investor of the 20th century, turning a fledgling textile mill into one of the world's premier companies with businesses ranging from selling candy to operating one of North America's largest railroads.

Coimbatore, the second largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is known for its industrial activity, extensive textile mills and surrounding cotton fields.

At the Awana Kancha textile mill, watch weavers at work, and see llamas, alpacas and vicunas up close.

The video was shot at the Bates Mill, an 1850s textile mill in Lewiston, Maine.

Residing in an abandoned textile mill, Hesse was inspired by the machine parts, tools, and materials of the disused part of the textile factory and had made drawing of the same.

Finally, MILL6 FOUNDATION is scheduled to complete restoration of their 1960s textile mill space in 2018.

Over the years they have diversified their supply routes to encompass textile mills in Turkey, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, operating on the same criteria of sustainability and transparency.

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.

Founded in 1981, the Villa Nueva textile mill employs about 900 workers who use a mix of high - tech and home - taught sewing to produce close to 2 million yards of towels, fabrics, shirts, pants, and mattress covers every month.

Guillermo Zimeri M., owner of the cavernous Textisur textile mill, is buying the power plant to reduce his energy bills and better compete with mills in other countries.

About 10 miles southwest of Guatemala City earlier this month, dozens of workers in hard hats poured a concrete foundation on two muddy acres behind a sprawling textile mill.

Patagonia lists the specific textile mills and sewing factories for every piece it sells, setting a high standard for transparency.

Bummis diapers are made in Quebec, Canada, using fabric that is sourced as often as possible from North American textile mills.

Oversee implementation, operation, maintenance, and performance of large - scale textile milling machines

Jeff Ritz, a division general manager of a Dalton, Ga., - based textile mill, included the following in his resume: