cotton mills
Fiber processing facilities
Cotton mills are factories where raw cotton is processed into thread, yarn, or fabric.
The term evokes the Industrial Revolution, when water- and steam-powered mills transformed textile production: The cotton mills of Manchester made England a manufacturing power.
Mill towns built around these factories shaped working-class life in Britain and the American South.
Revolving around an axis
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- cardingPreparing fibers for spinning
- combingArranging strands with teeth
- dyeingColoring via immersion
bleaching · finishing · ginning · yarn · thread · roving · warp · weft
Era of mechanized production
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
- LancashireNorthwestern English county
- LowellMassachusetts textile city
- ManchesterLarge English industrial city
power loom · factory system · enclosure movement · inventions · innovations · industrialization · urbanization · migration
Industrial plant laborers
- textile workersFabric industry employees
- factory workersEmployees in manufacturing facilities
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- working conditionsCircumstances of employment
shifts · wages · piecework · unions · strikes · overseers · spinners · weavers
Automated weaving apparatus
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
- bobbinSmall cylindrical thread holder
- spindleRotating rod for thread
- shuttleShort-distance transport
picker · steam engine · belt drive · flywheel · gear
Goods sold abroad
- importsGoods brought in
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- tradeExchange of commodities
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
slavery · colonialism · cash crops · supply chain · tariffs · mercantilism · globalization · commodity markets
spinning
Revolving around an axis
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- cardingPreparing fibers for spinning
- combingArranging strands with teeth
dyeing · bleaching · finishing · ginning · yarn · thread · roving · warp · weft · cloth
Industrial Revolution
Era of mechanized production
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
- LancashireNorthwestern English county
- LowellMassachusetts textile city
Manchester · power loom · factory system · enclosure movement · inventions · innovations · industrialization · urbanization · migration · mechanization
millhands
Industrial plant laborers
- textile workersFabric industry employees
- factory workersEmployees in manufacturing facilities
- child laborMinors performing paid work
working conditions · shifts · wages · piecework · unions · strikes · overseers · spinners · weavers · sweatshop
power loom
Automated weaving apparatus
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
- bobbinSmall cylindrical thread holder
- spindleRotating rod for thread
shuttle · picker · steam engine · belt drive · flywheel · gear
exports
Goods sold abroad
- importsGoods brought in
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- tradeExchange of commodities
plantations · slavery · colonialism · cash crops · supply chain · tariffs · mercantilism · globalization · commodity markets
- Southern Industryfurniture making, poultry, chicken processing, hog farming, lumber
- Rahim Yar KhanIndus River
- fashion industryfashion, fashion design, fashion designers, fashion shows, fashion week
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- old industriesblacksmithing, ironworks, sawmills, gristmills, tanneries
- economic historystock market crash, Industrial Revolution, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard
cotton millscotton fields
Farmland growing fiber crops
cotton farms · cotton plantations · cotton cultivation · raw cotton · farmland
cotton millshand spinning
Creating yarn without machines
hand weaving · cottage industry · spinning wheels · handlooms
mill, cotton, miller, milling, mills, milled, millstone, cottony, cottoned