Sentence examples for british textiles from inspiring English sources

British textiles, machinery, and shipping dominated the markets of Asia, South America, and much of Europe.

A wartime trade embargo had cut off many European markets for British textiles.

British textiles makers never succeeded in lengthening Chinese shirttails by a foot, as the most exuberant among them imagined doing in the 19th century.

Nice one New Labour's report card Bus pass ReprintsFine, sniff some company bosses, but that does nothing about their main problem: the strength of the pound, particularly against the euro, which is pricing British textiles out of international markets.

She mentions the Phrygian cap, adopted as a symbol by the colonists, who also made homespun cloth to replace fine British textiles, as a gesture of their rejection of British rule.

The main purpose of the Captain's visit to this country is to investigate the American market for British textiles to learn what British exports in the way of silks woolens, etc. are most likely to give England American dollar credit.

Other British textile firms are also trying to raise their skill levels.

Lucienne Day, who has died aged 93, was the foremost British textile designer of her period.

When new labor-saving technologies were introduced in the British textile industry in the early 1800s, workers lashed out.

A garden in Italy for the British textile designer Tricia Guild is taking him down a more contemporary path.

Cotton production on Alabama farmland was highly productive, and cotton prices were surging on demand from British textile manufacturers.