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oapen-20.500.12657-566102022-06-02T03:30:08Z Chapter Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution. Fibres, fashion and technical innovation in British cotton textiles, 1600-1780 Styles, John Cotton fashion fibres yarns industrial revolution. The early years of the British Industrial Revolution were dominated by mechanical innovations in cotton spinning. They emerged at a time when raw cotton prices were unprecedentedly high and the supply of all-cotton fabrics from India, the world’s principal producer of cotton textiles, had contracted dramatically. Most «cotton» textiles manufactured in Britain in the mid-18th century were combinations of expensive cotton yarn and cheap linen yarn. Faced with rising material costs, manufacturers economised by increasing the proportion of cheaper linen yarn. The most fashionable cotton products were, however, made entirely from cotton, or required a fixed proportion of cotton yarn. As the cost of cotton rose, their rapidly rising sales provided the principal inducement to improve quality and cut costs by inventing machines for spinning cotton yarn. 2022-06-01T12:29:42Z 2022-06-01T12:29:42Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855185653_794 9788855185653 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56610 eng Datini Studies in Economic History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 29746.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-565-3_6 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3.06 10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3.06 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855185653 2 27 Florence open access
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The early years of the British Industrial Revolution were dominated by mechanical innovations in cotton spinning. They emerged at a time when raw cotton prices were unprecedentedly high and the supply of all-cotton fabrics from India, the world’s principal producer of cotton textiles, had contracted dramatically. Most «cotton» textiles manufactured in Britain in the mid-18th century were combinations of expensive cotton yarn and cheap linen yarn. Faced with rising material costs, manufacturers economised by increasing the proportion of cheaper linen yarn. The most fashionable cotton products were, however, made entirely from cotton, or required a fixed proportion of cotton yarn. As the cost of cotton rose, their rapidly rising sales provided the principal inducement to improve quality and cut costs by inventing machines for spinning cotton yarn.
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