The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin - Cost-benefit analysis, challenging the conventional wisdom in European economic history that long-distance maritime transport in 1200-1600 as always more cost effective than overland trade routes. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF - http://repec.economics.utoronto.ca/files/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-99-01.pdf
Textiles as Articles of Consumption in Flemish Towns - Reconstruction of a Flemish basket of consumables price index for the period 1350-1500, aimed to determine the value of luxury broad woven woollen cloth related to income. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. Author: John H. Munro. - http://repec.economics.utoronto.ca/files/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-98-04.pdf
The Symbiosis of Towns and Textiles - Extensive working paper on the effects of urbanization of the textile industry on cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England between 1280 and 1570 CE. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract, and full text on PDF document. - http://repec.economics.utoronto.ca/files/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-98-03.pdf
The "Industrial Crisis" of the English Textile Towns - Paper arguing that the industrial crisis of the traditional English textile towns during the period 1290-1340 was caused by a far reaching economic crisis afflicting their major cloth markets in the Mediterranean basin, rather then the emergence of suppos - http://repec.economics.utoronto.ca/files/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-98-02.pdf
The Impact of Monetary and Labour Policies on the Flemish Cloth Industry - Study focusing on the consequences of monetary policy in aggravating ongoing conflict in the English and Dutch cloth industry's labor relations during the late 14th Century. Author: John Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. - http://repec.economics.utoronto.ca/files/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-02-05.pdf
Industrial Change in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Low Countries - Review of the circumstances which resulted in Merino wools to become the chief woollen cloth in the southern Low Countries during the later fifteenth and early sixteenth Century. Author: John H. Munro. Text abstract. Full article on PDF document. - http://repec.economics.utoronto.ca/files/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-02-03.pdf
Industrial Energy from Water Mills in the European Economy - Comprehensive study analysing the economic implications and consequences of the application of the water-mill, and their impact on European economic history up to the Industrial Revolution era in the fields of mining, metallurgy and textiles. Author: John - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ecipa/archive/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-02-01.pdf
Whole Cloth - Web version of an educational project, aimed at widening public understanding of the development of the American textile industry. Extensive essays, illustrations and history resources on the industrialization of textile manufacturing, cloth dyeing techni - http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/
Lancashire Textile Project - History of the steam driven weaving industry in the North West of England. Includes pictures and transcripts of interviews with those involved in the industry. - http://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/ltp/
Blackburn, Cotton and the Industrial Revolution - The history of Blackburn, UK, as it developed from a small market town in the 16th century, to one of the most important textile weaving centers in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Author: S. Lassey. - http://www.aboutlancs.com/cotton.htm
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Description, historic development and current situation of sweatshops, of which those related to the textile industry are the most notorious. Links to related sites. Authors: Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein. - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/145/
The Falls of the Clyde, New Lanark Mills - Description of the 18th century water powered cotton spinning mill built by David Dale and Richard Arkwright, and the village that developed around it. - http://www.aboutscotland.com/water/clydenl.html
History of Technology and Work - Comprehensive article on the causes, effects, cultural origins and consequences of the Industrial Revolution, as it began in the English textile industry. Author: Patricia R. Backer. - http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/pabacker/causeIR.htm
The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns - Abstract of a paper on the causes of the economic crisis in the traditional English textile manufacturing centers during the period between 1290 and 1340 CE. Full paper on PDF files. Author: John H. Munro. - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ecipa/archive/UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-98-02.html
Textile History - Concise overview of the development of textiles as an industry, from Neolithic times to the Industrial Revolution. From the Textile Guide web site. - http://www.thetextileguide.com/tghist.htm
An Introduction to the Textile Tradition in Prato - Timeline and short period descriptions of the development of the textile industry in this north Italian industrial center, from the 13th century till the present. Author: Prof. Claudio Balcucci. - http://www.po-net.prato.it/artestoria/storia/eng/sintess.htm
Cotton Mill and Textile History Guide - Extensive historical information on past and present cotton yarn spinning and fabric weaving mills of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, USA. Photo galleries, and survey and research reports. From the Historic Landmarks Commission site. - http://www.cmhpf.org/essays/cottonmills.html
The Textile Industry - Concise description of the textile industry as a family enterprise before the Industrial Revolution. Links to textile inventors, brief history of the cotton industry, and chronology of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. From The Open Do - http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/008.html