How to pronounce “textile” in English

Yeah, you mentioned it.Textile waste is another huge, huge problem.

It built factories and finance.Textile traders spread the alphabet and Arabic numbers, literacy and bookkeeping.They funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal Empire, the David and the Taj Mahal.

Just a few years made a big difference.Textile is one of the industry where working with a loom that is 30 years old or three years old, if you have to weave wool, is more or less the same.

It's the same root that gives us the word technology.Textiles are such an old technology that we rarely think about them.They hide in plain sight.

We sleep among textiles, walk on them, wash and dry with them.Textiles protect us from the elements.They carry our stuff.

They help us celebrate.Textiles are everywhere.Textiles go to war.

Textiles are everywhere.Textiles go to war.They keep us safe and bandage wounds.

there's microbes in and on us for a long long time. So, Andy Van Levenhook was in the Netherlands and he was he made thesetextiles, but he was a passionate lens grinder. He liked making magnifying glasses and we could look at his fabrics and dyes. And he got so good atpolishing these lenses, he basically built microscopes. And like any good scientist, you know what do you do when you build a microscope? You look at

going back to those the textile industry this is a picture of a The Weave room ofa textile mill in Fall Riv Fall River Massachusetts from about1910 over 100 years ago and if you look closely you'll see that there are very

You also move between the power centers-- Washington, Wall Street, Silicon Valley-- and some of the forgotten parts of the country, such asthe textile and tobacco region of North Carolina where you meet a man named Dean Price, who is the son of tobacco farmers.His father was a failed fire-and-brimstone preacher who eventually took his own life.

It's almost like their way of getting trade goods from China, that one group raids the other in order to find out whatever they havefor textiles or for metal.Mongols produced nothing. They could produce felt to make their tents, but they were not craftsmen.

And when it comes to mycelium, we're also developing new strains of mycelium that we're training to consume synthetic waste like plasticsand textiles as well.And that just brings in a whole new game-changer to the industry, where it introduces bio recycling in a way that eliminates the toxins that

and occupations, and America led the world in pushing that, and not coincidentally, led the world in shared prosperity and living standards.in textiles and other areas has been a path to development to get out of that underdeveloped state.

It's very good tobacco.Not cotton textile, but made material, like some kind of nylon.

The next day I went to the textile mill.we have around 432 textile mills in our city.Then I bought the cotton from that mill.

We wanted to be very natural.She's a textile artist.

Yeah. So there's sort of continuous improvement.They went out to textile industries.

So at the end of the book, I said maybe-- maybe that's the story.Because I lost my textile company.And Guido is still one of the most important investors in Europe.

An award-winning textile and fashion designer, a painter, a trained classical dancer, a theater artist, and once a dentist,our guest today wears multiple hats, none of which are visible today, of course.

they need to in training people and at the same time you have a employees who are looking for jobs and looking whatmost advanced textile equipment was actually installed all over the world in

they need to in training people and at the same time you have a employees who are looking for jobs and looking whatparticularly British textile managers to run some of some of these Mills uh but

And she's a textile artist.

This is called a textile cone.

So early textile equipment, newly invented in England, would soon appear in the United States in various

but I'm sorry textile dyes tend to be carcinogenic it's been known in public

They are working with textiles, with fashion.

I studied textiles in part because I wanted to know about the historical context of cloth

about the importance of textiles and how what we wear really expresses who we are.

You talk about your textiles.

If you love textiles, well, hunt for what has been done in textiles.

I'm Virginia Postrel, the author of "The Fabric of Civilization." My book is about one of humanity's most important and influential technologies, textiles.The word "textiles" comes from the Indo-European root "tex," which means to weave.It's the same root that gives us the word technology.

From the moment we are born, we are surrounded by cloth.We sleep among textiles, walk on them, wash and dry with them.Textiles protect us from the elements.

They provide comfort and joy.The story of textiles is older than history and younger than tomorrow.It stretches back to cave dwellers twisting plant fibers into string and forward to scientists embedding threads with computer chips.

They funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal Empire, the David and the Taj Mahal.The story of textiles is a story of commerce and culture, a story of peaceful trade and savage wars.The story of textiles is a human story.

The story of textiles is a story of commerce and culture, a story of peaceful trade and savage wars.The story of textiles is a human story.It's a story made by women and by men, by famous leaders and forgotten peasants.

There's also this line, I think, in the innovators chapter late in the book.You say "change textiles, change the world." And you're talking about these really big concepts, but it's not some far-off entity.Everybody can be a part of this.

But now the whole globe, through internet commerce, is a large market.to get the textiles they want, they certainly will buy things and throw them away.

And those textiles, those cloths, the weapons, were taken down the ancient Portuguese route to West Africa

The manufacturing of textiles, for instance, relied on networks of independent farmers who spun and wove cloth.

So we've designed textiles where the water coming into the factory comes out clean-- clean enough to drink, which means you'd rather use it again, which means

It was turned into textiles, textiles that could be turned out at a quantity a of a variety previously impossible

And the textiles could be made in the United States.

interested in textiles one was interested in Modern Art those who had something they could really grab onto

building new textiles by hand why don't we work on a outfit together and then the jewelry designer needed a body to

more 3D um Fabrics textiles I know as a consumer something can look beautiful if

And it doesn’t end with the textile industry– this is happening across tons of different markets.

But now the whole globe, through internet commerce, is a large market.countries in Africa can use textile production and apparel production to go up.

then I thought it's the same thing, simple thing.The next day I went to the textile mill.we have around 432 textile mills in our city.

Because you really capture two different styles.And so here we are having a textile entrepreneur from Prato and an economist from Rome.They're talking to each other.