noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/textile/shoe etc factory
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There is a large car factory where many of the local people work.
the coal/car/textile etc industry
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The town was very dependant on the car industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
woollen
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Generally, all woollen textiles are of felt or employ plain weave.
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But our main story lies with the woollen textiles .
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For towns of medium size a big stake in the woollen textile industry was the surest foundation of prosperity.
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Yorkshire kept to woollen textiles with a major market in Leeds.
■ NOUN
company
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In the first half 170 textile companies recorded problems compared with 112 in the whole of 1988.
design
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Right: the Op Art movement heavily influenced textile design .
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Crafts on display include ceramics, fly-tying, jewellery making, textile design , etc.
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Leaving school, he had studied textile design and that last summer of all he was already a first-year student.
designer
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Kier wanted to be a go-go dancer, then a psychologist, then a textile designer .
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It aims to provide an informed foundation for the future professional development of fashion and textile designers .
factory
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As the textile factories closed, what were we meant to do?
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At the age of seven Mayall began work in a series of textile factories .
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The institution occupies three floors of a former textile factory which is lit by windows on both sides.
industry
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Nylon made a great impact on the textile industry when it was first discovered.
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In fact, the textile industry more than any other made possible relatively large-scale production in a still traditional artisan world.
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It is most important to our textile industry that we reach a satisfactory conclusion.
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The valleys began to fill rapidly with people who became skilled in the textile industry .
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The war had stimulated the chemical industry and the related synthetic textile industries.
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In both metallurgical and textile industries almost half the factory workers were employed in plants of over 1,000 workers.
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Now the smaller, modern textile industry is just one among many new industries in these same towns.
machinery
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Many engineers in Leeds and the textile towns have used these advantages to make textile machinery , much of which is exported.
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In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs.
manufacture
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Contests over perquisites were not confined to textile manufacture .
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Hand-loom weavers in the various textile manufactures were the most ubiquitous of manufacturing workers.
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In textile manufacture women were first and foremost the spinners.
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In 1759 Joseph Massie estimated that 228,000 families were supported by metal, wood and textile manufactures .
manufacturer
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What over the years have been the main disadvantages for textile manufacturers ?
mill
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A textile mill developed natural fibres for special bedding to promote Kim's longevity.
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It's a growing town - because of the textile mills -but not growing in virtue, that I can tell you.
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She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
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We're stuck for some ideas about the workings of a textile mill in the story.
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From the 1760s to the 1830s, steam engines, textile mills , and the Enlightenment produced the Industrial Revolution.
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There, 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world.
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Here we illustrated numerous dramatic conversions of warehouses and textile mills whose open-plan layouts made them adaptable for virtually any purpose.
trade
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From that moment the lock-out, or standstill, in the textile trade began.
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Those features are all welcome to the textile trade .
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Many of the Champagne houses established at this time were born as a direct result of the Reims textile trade .
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The historic Longfords mill is described by historians as an important relic of the textile trade .
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Employing hundreds of people, it was at the centre of the textile trade in the Stroud valleys.
worker
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The unrest began on May 5 as textile workers went on strike in support of a pay demand.
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Frustrated by his own failures, the on-again, off-again textile worker regularly beats her.
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Commercial people lagged behind, but they were ahead of the textile workers , the first working-class group to show strong limitation.
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The opposition coalition criticized the tax-free zones as exploiting women textile workers and as creating dependence on foreign countries.
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In 1911 the fertility census recorded that textile workers actually married later.
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Edinburgh had practically no textile workers , men or women; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants.
■ VERB
work
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Her nan had lost her hearing working in the textile m ills.
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They worked fourteen-hour days in textile sweatshops.
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She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But tutors were so impressed with the two girls' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers.
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Expansion plans and improved profits at textile group Albion helped it to a 24p rise to 75p.
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Furniture, textiles and floor coverings date from the late 1960s or earlier.
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Had Guy Sterne chosen furnishings and textiles for this villa himself?
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She was naked, and inanimate textiles lapped her skin.
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The move to the country outside had begun, and so had Aarau's export trade, at that time mostly textiles.