Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rajaram Paritha is on a mission. The 35-year-old tailor wants to ...

KARL MAYER sees performance fabrics and next-level textile solutions in particular as potential growth drivers for its ...

The first thing you notice when you arrive in Lawrence, Massachusetts, are the mills — picturesque five- and six-story red brick buildings that stretch into the distance along the Merrimack River. A ...

What was it like for the operatives (people who operated the machines) in Lowell’s textile mills? Every worker had a different experience. While earning cash wages for long hours, some workers found ...

Coimbatore: The 15th edition of Texfair, one of India's largest exhibition on textile machinery, accessories and spares, began at Codissia Trade Fair .

PITTSFIELD -- They loom over the landscape as symbols of the Berkshire's once potent textile and paper industries. Some of these enormous structures are still used by industry, but many are vacant.