Janesville Gazette

Historical Society to host additional program on 19th century quilts, textiles and sewing machines

JANESVILLE – After significant turnout and enthusiasm for last weekend’s National Quilting Day presentations at the Rock County Historical Society, another session of “Quilts, Textiles and Antique ...
Daily Herald

Try your hand at 'Textiles & Tools,' 19th century-style, at the Durant-Peterson House

Discover how families worked with wool, flax, and cotton to spin, weave, and stitch as they created textiles in the 1800s with demonstrations on tape weaving, lacemaking, then try your own hand with a ...
The Business Journals

Defense contractor uses 19th-century machinery to make smart textiles

Nautilus Defense COO Bob Raymond and lead prototyper Zane Lewis stand in front of a restored braiding machine at their Pawtucket facility. U.S. Rep. David Cicilline toured Nautilus Defense in ...
JSTOR Daily

Designers in the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fancy Textile Industry: Education, Employment and Exhibition

Mid-nineteenth century design reform and design education has generated recent scholarly interest, but much of this is London-focussed, and the designers themselves, mostly located in northern ...