Textile

A textile or cloth is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread). Quotes Work—work—workTill the brain begins to swim!Work—work—workTill the eyes are heavy and dim!Seam, and gusset, and band,Band, and gusset, and seam,—Till over the buttons I fall asleep,And sew them on in a dream!O Men, with sisters dear!O Men, with mothers and wives!It is not linen you're wearing out,But human creatures' lives!Stitch—stitch—stitchIn poverty, hunger, and dirt,—Sewing at once, with a double thread,A shroud as well as a shirt. Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt (1843) In the textile art of India, indigenous motifs are described to be "ageless" as they seem to possess marvelous sense of aesthetics true for all times like lotus, the serpent, the elephant, the chakrā or cakrā, certain trees and so forth. Abhay Kumar Singh Modern World System and Indian Proto-industrialization: Bengal 1650-1800 http://books.google.com/books?id=WwNUblS-jpwC&pg=PA202 1 January 2006 Northern Book Centre 978-81-7211-201-1 202 See also Sweatshop Textile arts External links Category:Themes