This category contains links to historical books about the yarn spinning and textile industry.
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- An Episode and a History: The Centenary of a Woollen Mill. Part 2 Second part of the history of the Marzotto Woollen Mill and the region of Valdagno, Italy, from 1836 to 1936, describing the machinery, ancient processes, the woollen industry, and wool preparation, carding, combing and yarn spinning, textile fabric weaving, and figures.
- An Episode and a History: The Centenary of a Woollen Mill. Part 3 Third part of the history of the Marzotto Woollen Mill and the region of Valdagno, Italy, from 1836 to 1936, dealing with the history of wool weaving from ancient Greece to the Industrial Revolution.
- An Episode and a History: The Centenary of a Woollen Mill. Part 4 Fourth part of the history of the Marzotto Woollen Mill and the region of Valdagno, Italy, from 1836 to 1936, describing the commercial and industrial organization of the Italian textile industry since the Middle Ages, and the rivalry between Italian cities.
- An Episode and a History: The Centenary of a Woollen Mill. Part 5 Fifth part of the history of the Marzotto Woollen Mill and the region of Valdagno, Italy, from 1836 to 1936, providing an overview of the social, economic and educational situation in the region before the Second World War.
- An Episode and a History: The Centenary of a Woollen Mill. Part 6 Sixth part of the history of the Marzotto Woollen Mill and the region of Valdagno, Italy, from 1836 to 1936, describing leisure and culture, and the situation of healthcare in the region before the Second World War.
- Lancashire and the Far East Comprehensive, 393 page study of government reports and interviews with employers, managers and technical staff, workers, social workers and trade union organizers involved in the Japanese cotton textile industry, of developments in Japanese labor conditions in the cotton industry and the related analysis of the root causes of the decline in the exports of British cotton yarn and textile goods. First published in 1931. Author: Freda Utley.
- A History of Mississippi Cotton Mills and Mill Villages On-line book about the history of the cotton textile industry in Mississippi from the first half of the 19th Century until its demise in the 1950's, and the mills, mill villages, and the people who created and developed the industry. Author: Narvell Strickland.
- The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. Volume I; Part I Illustrated history of cotton textile manufacturing in Britain, written in by Andrew Ure in 1836 and republished in 1886, providing an introduction to the origin and development of cotton manufacture.
- The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. Volume I; Part II Illustrated history of cotton textile manufacturing in Britain, written in by Andrew Ure in 1836 and republished in 1886, dealing with the natural history and husbandry of cotton, and the development of the cotton trade.
- The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. Volume I; Part III The history of cotton textile manufacturing in Britain, written in by Andrew Ure in 1836 and republished in 1886, about the early history of mechanised cotton manufacture and the factory system, and including an overview and analysis of a modern cotton factory, notes and an appendix.
- The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. Volume II; Part I Illustrated history of cotton textile manufacturing in Britain, written in by Andrew Ure in 1836 and republished in 1886, providing a description of the preparation processes and machinery of the cotton mill.
- The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. Volume II; Part II Illustrated history of cotton textile manufacturing in Britain, written in by Andrew Ure in 1836 and republished in 1886, with a description of the technology and machinery for mule spinning, yarn reeling and counting, twisting and further processing, and historical notes on weaving technology and looms.
- The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. Volume II; Part III Illustrated history of cotton textile manufacturing in Britain, written in by Andrew Ure in 1836 and republished in 1886, describing the technology of power looms and its related equipment, and the conditions and statistics of cotton textile manufacturing in the United Kingdom.