Textiles and Clothing
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A one-page encyclopedia article defining textiles and clothing as a branch of home economics. It covers the scientific study of fibres, the share of family budgets spent on clothing, the effect of fashion on standards, and the shift from household training in spinning, weaving and sewing to scientific and economic instruction in schools and colleges. It ends with a short bibliography of early twentieth-century textile texts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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