Textile Production Quotes

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Iron would soon become cheaper, and Linens and Woolens of our own [made in the colonies] make would grow more in use, as the Spinners and Weavers improved in making them, but there is no setting up such Works because there is no Money to Pay the Labourer

I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.

When I see a shoe, I deconstruct it in my head. It comes from spending childhood summers around my grandad's denim factory in Bury, watching the machinists turn fabric into clothes.

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

Because America doesn't have a strong textile industry anymore, we have to bring things like fabrics, zippers, and color tape into the U.S., and having so many elements involved in production adds to the amount of waste. You might have some things coming from Italy, a button coming from China, or lining coming from Korea; it's just endless.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

My job is — I make socks. That’s all I do. I don’t necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this — me doing what I do — than being around my family.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.

Enhancing fabric production will also lead to strengthening the power loom sector.

The spinning work is performed by the poor people who live in villages and scattered houses. The clothiers, who generally live in the towns, send out the wool weekly to the spinners. At the same time, the clothiers' servants and horses bring back the yarn that they the spinners have spun and finished.

Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.

I would love to do my own line of clothes - something small.