Cloth labels from American textile mills, 1800s
Jacquard loom, 1880s
Quilting party in western Virginia
Machine-spun thread on a bobbin in the Lowell mills
New England textile factory, 1800s
Shops in a medieval French town
Greek women at their household chores
Weaver at his loom in Europe, 1600s
Making silk in early China
Patriotic American colonial woman spinning to avoid importing British cloth
Seamstress, 1800s
Man weaving on a large hand-loom
Woman stitching a patchwork quilt, 1800s
Young girl learning to sew
Woman reenactor sewing, Yorktown battlefield
Linsey-woolsey cloth for 18th-century reenactors on sale at Yorktown
Burmese women and a spinning wheel
Knitting mill workers
Textile workers collecting their pay, 1890s
Textile workers in a northern mill
Lowell girls weaving in Massachusetts textile mills
Dry-goods sales room in Boston, 1850s
Dry-goods store in Boston, 1850s
Weaving at Spitalfields, England, 1700s
Power looms inside the Boott Cotton Mills
Woman weaving on the porch of her Appalachian cabin
Ladies enjoying their sewing circle
Women sewing at home by light from a window
Weaving on a laptop hand-loom
Womens sewing circle reenacted at Yorktown battlefield
African-American woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield
Woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield
African-American woman reenactor in a sewing circle at Yorktown
Native woman spinning cotton in the ancient way
Calico cloth for 18th-century reenactors on sale at Yorktown battlefield
MIll worker tending mule-spinners
Women garment workers in the dressmaking department of a factory
A rural English cottage, with a woman spinning
Boott Cotton Mills on the Merrimac River in Lowell
Textile mills line the Merrimac and Concord rivers in Lowell
Fabric label for cloth woven in Lowell mills
Slaters Mill, first US textile factory
Textile mills along the Blackstone River
Reenactors weaving on belt looms at a Revolutionary War reenactment
Reenactor weaving on a belt loom at a Revolutionary War reenactment
