Education

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• Children at Work: Exposing Child Labor in the Cotton Mills Lesson plan for classes in art and social studies of grade 7 to 10, containing oral histories in video and text form of child labor in US cotton textile mills of the Carolinas in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Includes a history of the development of cotton textile mills and mill villages. Developed by graduate assistants from the University of North Carolina.
• White Linen Garments of the Priest Lesson paper reviewing the history of linen, the white linen garments of the priesthood, the times that only the High Priest wore linen garments, what the priests will wear when the temple sacrifices are started again, and what our white linen garments should be today and in the future. From the Christian Churches of God. Authors: Willard D. Boettcher and others.
• Clothing And Health. An Elementary Textbook Of Home Making Textbook for textiles and garment sewing classes, written by Helen Kinne and published in 1916. Includes extensive chapters on yarn spinning and cloth weaving, printing and finishing.
• Spinning Yarns, Telling Tales about Textiles Lesson aid designed by the Smithsonian Institute for elementary and secondary education, exploring the storytelling potential of textiles from different times and places, and the ways textiles can be used to enliven and enrich many areas of the curriculum. Includes a description of the steps involved in making a piece of cloth, a history of textiles, and a bibliography of resources.
• Textiles in Ghana Learning modules about the technique of hand woven and printed kente and adinkra, and machine woven and waxed cotton printed fabrics of Ghana. Includes the history of kente and adinkra fabrics and their place in a changing market. From the Open University's Learning Space web site.
• Follow the Yarn Part of the Digital History for Preston Schools project, dedicated to the history of the Preston area cotton textile industry. Includes a timeline, a searchable database, glossary of terms, interactive games, and a list of classroom activities.
• City of Spindles: The Textile Mills of Lowell Chapter 12 of the on-line version of CD-roms joined with textbooks on the history and development of the factory system in the United States, dealing with the emergence of mechanised textile manufacturing and the development of organised labor in Lowell, Massachusetts. From the web site of Inventing America.
• Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts Classroom-ready lesson plan about the development of the Boott mill to understand the workings of the industrial system at Lowell.
• Silk Weaving Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles, providing a detailed history of the silk textile industry in Britain in general and the County of Middlesex in particular, from the reign of Henry VIII until the 1860's treaty with France which allowed French silks to come in duty free.