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OF the great trinity of human life's essential needs—food, shelter, and clothing—practically all the articles of clothing, as well as a considerable number of articles for improving the shelter, are derived from textiles. The provision of these and other articles has led to the development of the great textile industries. These industries together form the only serious rival to agriculture for chief place among the industries of the United Kingdom, while they rank supreme in their contribution to the country's exports, of which no less than some 40 per cent, are textiles.
Textiles.
By Prof. A. F. Barker. With chapters on The Mercerized and Artificial Fibres, and the Dyeing of Textile Materials, by W. M. Gardner; Silk Throwing and Spinning, by R. Snow; The Cotton Industry, by W. H. Cook; The Linen Industry, by F. Bradbury. (Westminster Series.) Revised edition. Pp. xii + 386. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 15s.
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Textiles . Nature 110, 272 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110272a0
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