Textile Industry Quotes

While we have land to labor, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? …. You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king.

Ludhiana will again rise as Manchester of India if AAP comes to power.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

My mother was very fashion-oriented, and she started a little children's wear business that became large in this little town. She used to be able to look at a picture of an outfit and just start cutting the fabric right there.

What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."

Fabric is the foundation of a collection.

The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.

Handloom is a legacy, a craft which involves close to four million weavers in the country. They have to decide how they would like to position their wares in the domestic and global markets. We in the government will support their vision to the best of our abilities.

I've never read an article of clothing.

I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.

All our measures should tend towards the immediate encouragement of our woolen manufactures, which must be looked upon as the basis of our wealth.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.

In the old country [Austria] I would have been a tailor.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

Cotton is my life.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

There is nothing similar between the pharmaceutical and textile business.