Index

A

Acrylic, modacrylic

Agriculture

Alexander the Great

Alpaca

America

Anokhi Hand Printing Museum

Antique

Animal fibres

Apprentice

Apprenticeship

Arabs

Arachne

Archaeological

Arkwright, Richard

Asia

Assyrians

Athena

Atropos

Australia

Aztecs

B

Bales

Cotton

Wool

Bast fibres

Baste

Batik

Batting

Battle of Hastings

Bayeaux Tapestry

Beaver cloth

Benjamin, Walter

Bierce, Ambrose

Birmingham

Blanket cloth

Blanket Stitch

Blankets

Bobbin

Bombyx mandarina moore

Bombyx mori

Boulton-Watt

Broadcloth

Broadloom

Broderie Anglaise

Byssinosis

Byzantine

Byzantium

C

Calais

Canvas Work

Caprinae

Carding

Caribbean

Carothers, Wallace H.

Cartwright, Edmund

Catalhoyuk

Central Asia

Chardonnet, Hilaire

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chemical bath

Cheshire

Child

Children

China

Chinese

Cistercians

Civil war,

America

China

Russia

Clotho

Cloth

Clothes

Cocoons

Columbus, Christopher

Combing

Constantinople

Cord

Cortex

Cotton

Cotton boll weevil

Crochet

Crompton, Samuel

Cultivate

Cultivation

Cumbria

Cuticle

Czech Republic

D

Damask

Denim

Derby

Derbyshire

Despeissis, Louis

Dickens, Charles

Disease

Distaff

Domestic system

Double cloth

E

East India Company

Edward I, King of England

Edward II, King of England

Edward III, King of England

Egypt

Egyptian

Eighteenth Century

Eighth Century

Eleventh Century

Eliot, George

Embroidery

England

Estonia

Europe

Evans, Helen

F

Factory Act System

Fassett, Kaffe

Federation Laniere Internationale

Felt

Field, Eugene

Fifteenth Century

Fifth century BC

Finland

First Century AD

Flanders

Flax

Flemish

Florence

Flying Shuttle

Fourteenth Century

Fourth Century BC

France

French

Fulling

Fur

Fustian

G

Garment

Garside, Jan

Gaskell, Elizabeth

German

Germany

Gandhi, Mahatma

Gossypium

Great Depression

Greece

Greek

Gregg, William

Guilds

H

Halifax

Harrapa

Hat(s)

Hemp

Henry I, King of England

Henry II, King of England

Henry VIII

Herodotus

Hibernian Silk Warehouse

Howe, Elias

Howe, Jackie

Huang, Ti, Mythical Yellow Emperor of China

Huang, Quin Shi, Emperor of China

Huguenots

Hungary

Hybrid

I

Incas

India

Indigo

Indonesia

Indus Valley

Industrial Revolution

International Wool Textile Organisation

Invention28

Inventors

Ink

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Italy

J

James I, King of England

James II, King of England

Japan

Japanese

John, King of England

Jute

K

Kay, John

Khotan

Knotting

Korea

L

Labour

Lachesis

Lady Lei-Tzu

Lancashire

Land enclosure

Lascaux Caves

Lee, William

Leeds

Lichtenfels, Lisa

Linseed

Linen

Linnaeus, Carl

Linum usitatissium

Lithuania

Loden cloth

Lombe brothers

London

Looms

Louis XI

Lucca

Lustre

M

McDonald, Fiona

Mably, Brandon

Macedonia

Madder

Magna Carter

Manchester

Mandeville, Sir John

Manmade

Mann, Glenys

Manufacture

Mediterranean

Memphis

Mercer, John

Mercers

Mercerisation

Merchants

Of the Staple

Adventurers

Merino

Mesopotamia

Mexico

Middle Ages

Mills

Monasteries

Mongolia

Moors

Mordant

Moths

Mulberry

Mural

Mythology

N

Naalebinding

Needlepoint

Needles

Netherlands

Netting

Nettles

New World

Nile, River

Nineteenth Century

Ninth Century

North America

Nottingham

Nylon

O

Old World

Ordinances

Organzine

P

Painting

Pakistan

Paper

Papyrus

Parasites

Patents

Paul, Lewis

Peel, Sir Robert

Perkins, William Henry

Persia

Peru

Phoenicians

Pliny The Elder

Ply10

Polyester

Portugal

Pottery

Prehistoric

Pulp

Q

Qing Dynasty

Quaker

Quilting

R

Ramie

Rayon

Reel

Republic of Georgia

Richard the Lion Heart, King of England

Royal Lustring Company

Russia

S

Saddle blanket

Sailor

Satin

Scales

Second Century BC

Seignoret, Etienne

Sewing

Seventeenth Century

Seventh Century

Silksee also the chapter on silk pages 65-82

Sixteenth Century

Sixth Century BC

Shakers

Shang Dynasty

Shears

Shearing

Sheep

Shepherds

Shuttle, see also flying shuttle

Silk screen

Singer, Isaac

Sisal

Ski cloth

Slavery

Slaves

Snow cloth

Spain

Spanish

Spindle

Spindle whorl

Spinning wheel

Spitalfields

Staple

Strutt, Jedediah

Switzerland

Syria

T

Tang Dynasty

Tapestry

Tarim Basin

Taylor, Vanessa

Taylor, Vickie

Tatting

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Tenth Century

Third Century BC

Thirteenth Century

Tiberius, Emperor

Treadle

Trade

Trade routes

Turkey

Tutankhamen

Twelfth Century

Twentieth Century

V

Velvet

Velveteen

Velour

Victoria, NSW, Australia

Victoria, Queen

Victoria and Albert Museum

Virginia

Viscose

W

War

American Civil War

American War of Independence

Chinese Civil War

Hundred Years War

Russian Civil War

World War II

Warp

Warp knitting

Water frame

Watt, James

Weave

Weaver

Weavers’ Strike

Weaving

Weft

Whitney, Eli

Wilford, Judy

William the Conqueror

Willow

Wise, Samuel

Women

Woodblock

Wool, see Chapter Three pages

Wool Fibre

Wool Industry

Woollen mills

Worsted

Y

Yang, Lady (the Precious Consort)

Yangzi River

Yarn

Yellow Emperor

York

Yorkshire

Yorkshire