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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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The ugly truth about fast fashion

Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.

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Dress and the magic of touch

Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.

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  • Textiles: a industrial washing machine for fabrics. Engraving by J. Petitcolin after J.E. Armengaud.
  • Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.
  • Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Textiles: a carding machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1809, after J. D. Herbert.
  • Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Textiles: a child-sized loom for apprentice weavers to learn tapestry weaving on, elevation (top), section (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven cutting machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
  • Textiles: a roving machine for cotton manufacture. Engraving, c. 1858.
  • Textiles: a stretching machine [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. D. Herbert.
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