The site was first settled by German Pietists led by Francis Daniel Pastorius in 1683, and the development of handicraft industries (weaving, tanning, and wagon building) led to prosperity.
Kevin also cofounded Christopher Norman Inc., which dramatically changed the furnishing fabric industry by weaving elegant, European-style silk in the Far East, thus making silk affordable to the entire interior design market, not just the very rich.
Like a thinner, less aggressive Michael Moore, the director talks to consumers, experts and food-industry flacks, weaving alarming statistics about rampant obesity with visits to the doctor and double-quarter-pounder-with-cheese combo meals.
One of Worsley's early industries was weaving.
By integrating real, licit drugs into the fabric of his work, he connects transcendence and the pharmaceutical industry, which weaves and disseminates its own mass hallucinatory dream of better living through chemistry.
They also started up a silk weaving industry, the foundation for Manchester's later cotton industry.
Later, the weaving industry was disrupted by the spinning jenny (though now the fashion industry is being disrupted by a company that wants you to make your clothes at home, so we go full circle).
Crossnore prides itself on its weaving industry, children's home and new medical center.
During those years it prospered, chiefly as a result of its weaving industry and its function as a market centre.
The town reached its economic zenith, mainly because of its weaving industry, in the 15th and 16th centuries but was devastated by the Thirty Years' War (1618 48) and, in 1640, by the plague.
