The authorities say they found more than 30,000 bootleg DVD's, some of them popular movies like "Cats and Dogs," "The Grinch" and the "Godfather" trilogy, along with 30,000 compact discs by musical performers like Jennifer Lopez, R. Kelly and Santana, in the cottage factory run by Abdulla Qaza, 19, and his uncle, Khalid Ghnaim, 33.
In small cottage factories, gold leaf is made by pounding bits of the precious metal with sledgehammers.
Drug production went from cottage to factory industry from the late 1820s onwards, with Heinrich Merck's commercialization of morphine, an extract from opium.
Nestled among oaks at 850 metres altitude and blessed with stunning views over the Casentino valley, the medieval village of Pratariccia has stood empty for 50 years, ever since its population of farmers and shepherds abandoned their stone cottages for factory jobs during Italy's economic boom.
His cottage-scale factory and offices occupy a warren of rooms in a sombre two-hundred-year-old house, with blackened beams, which survived demolition when the arcade was built, and seems out of synch with its festive swags of plastic wisteria.
In a year or so, partly with loans from Mr. Cain, Mr. Futral said that he planned to create Val-Kill Industries room settings in a fieldstone cottage alongside the former factory.
It was in Cromford in 1771 that Richard Arkwright, an industrial pioneer, transformed cotton spinning from a cottage industry into a factory business, using rivers and streams to power newfangled machines.
He upheld the self-sufficient rural community over the heavily armed and centralized nation-state, cottage industries over big factories, and manual labor over machines.
Just as the industry slowly shifted from cottage industry to massive factories over the course of a decade, the next change seems to revolve around doing a lot with a little.
The area expanded from a small market town into a major industrial metropolis; factories replaced cottage industries, and the population rose from 12,000 in 1812 to 70,244 within 30 years.
Counterfeit operations range from small cottage industries to large factories and can involve smuggling and illegal importation, use of fictitious businesses and front companies, and false documents.
