Business
Startups are figuring out alternatives to mainstream ways of dyeing clothes, which tend to require lots of hot water — which tends to be heated with fossil fuels.
Aug. 18, 2023
Few industries receive more protection from imports than textiles and apparel. Quotas limit imports.
Sept. 23, 1988
World & Nation
Alicia de la Cruz Martinez and 23 of her co-workers recently lost their jobs in a lingerie factory.
Nov. 9, 1992
The House on Friday gave final passage to legislation tightening limits on imports of textiles, clothing and shoes and sent it to the White House for certain veto by President Reagan.
Sept. 24, 1988
It’s back-to-school time, which means the advertisements are everywhere: Buy! Buy! Buy!
Sept. 7, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
Polyester may have made a hit with the American leisure class, but its invention symbolized the near demise of an East Indian textile tradition more than 5,000 years old.
Aug. 13, 1986
The red brick textile mill that sprawls across a weedy hillside on this town’s edge was always the largest local employer, but that doesn’t begin to describe its role.
May 28, 1985
Imports of Chinese-made sweaters, shirts and other clothing and textiles will be limited to 3% growth a year under a U.S.
Dec. 20, 1987
The companies that helped France avoid a shortage of coronavirus-filtering face wear for daily use seek help unloading a surplus of 20 million masks.
June 12, 2020
More than half a century after British industrialists packed up and left this Yangtze River city, their Victorian-era textile factories are still cranking out cloth.
Jan. 18, 1993