The group will encompass RTS’ wholly owned brands and operations, including Carrington Textiles, Pincroft and Alltex, as well ...

Crompton’s spinning mules could produce huge amounts of thread and they were in use in British textile factories for well over a hundred years. Thomas Allom's painting of power loom weavers in a ...

The Americans were buying British textiles, pottery and sugar. In the Maritimes, it was a time of unprecedented prosperity. "Happy state of Nova Scotia!" read an article in the Acadian Recorder.

Before the revolutionary wars, women in the American colonies would defy the British textile trade by creating homespun cloth, even holding public ‘spinning bees’ to see who could create the ...