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dc.contributor.authorStyles, John
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-02T04:02:07Z
dc.date.available2022-06-02T04:02:07Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.submitted2022-06-01T12:29:42Z
dc.identifierONIX_20220601_9788855185653_794
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56610
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82007
dc.description.abstractThe early years of the British Industrial Revolution were dominated by mechanical innovations in cotton spinning. They emerged at a time when raw cotton prices were unprecedentedly high and the supply of all-cotton fabrics from India, the world’s principal producer of cotton textiles, had contracted dramatically. Most «cotton» textiles manufactured in Britain in the mid-18th century were combinations of expensive cotton yarn and cheap linen yarn. Faced with rising material costs, manufacturers economised by increasing the proportion of cheaper linen yarn. The most fashionable cotton products were, however, made entirely from cotton, or required a fixed proportion of cotton yarn. As the cost of cotton rose, their rapidly rising sales provided the principal inducement to improve quality and cut costs by inventing machines for spinning cotton yarn.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDatini Studies in Economic History
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherCotton
dc.subject.otherfashion
dc.subject.otherfibres
dc.subject.otheryarns
dc.subject.otherindustrial revolution.
dc.titleChapter Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution. Fibres, fashion and technical innovation in British cotton textiles, 1600-1780
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3.06
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a
oapen.relation.isbn9788855185653
oapen.pages27
oapen.place.publicationFlorence
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