cotton mill
Fiber-processing plant
A cotton mill is a factory where raw cotton is processed into thread, yarn, or fabric.
The term evokes the Industrial Revolution, when water-powered and later steam-powered mills transformed textile production: She worked twelve-hour shifts at the cotton mill.
Mill towns grew up around these factories throughout New England and the American South.
- bobbinSmall cylindrical thread holder
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
- yarnTwisted strand for crafts
- loomFabric-making frame
- factoryIndustrial production facility
factory floor · textile industry · company town · thread · Lancashire · child labor · long hours · industrial revolution · steam engine · spindle · carding · power loom · fiber · tools · smokestacks · textile · industrial · workers' housing
- factoriesfactory, manufacturing plant, assembly plant, car factory, plants
- Industrial Revolutionsteam engine, railroad, factory, coal, iron
- cottonboll, fiber, gin, ginning, lint
- Georgian Inventionsspinning jenny, steam engine, power loom, flying shuttle, hot air balloon
- Industrial heritagefactory, foundry, ironworks, steelworks, colliery
- mill townsawmill, factory, factory worker, factory whistle, factory system
cotton millcotton farm
Agricultural land for fiber crops
cotton plantation · cotton field · cotton harvest · cotton picking · cotton gin
cotton millsteel mill
Alloy production plant
lumber mill · paper mill · wool mill · silk mill · sawmill
cotton millhand spinning
Creating yarn without machines
cottage industry · artisan workshop · spinning wheel · subsistence farming
mill, cotton, miller, milling, mills, cottons, milled, millstone, cottony