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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 techniques and fibers.


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Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / History / Industry
Title: Whole Cloth
Description: 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 techniques and fibers.
Location: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/
 
  
Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Dyestuffs_and_Chemicals / Resources / History
Title: The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing
Description: Excerpt of a book published by The University of Tennessee Press, describing the ancient technique of fermentation vat dyeing of fibers and fabrics. Author: J.N. Liles.
Location: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u3tc/u3materials/natDye.html
 
  
Directory: Kids_and_Teens / Arts / Music / Instruments / Stringed / Guitar
Title: From Frying Pan to Flying V: The Rise of the Electric Guitar
Description: Illustrates how innovative makers and players combined the guitar with a pickup and amplifier to create a new instrument.
Location: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/electricguitar/
 
  
Directory: Kids_and_Teens / People_and_Society / Biography / Inventors
Title: Innovative Lives
Description: Short profiles of men and women who are changing life today. From the Smithsonian.
Location: http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / Arts_and_Entertainment
Title: Smithsonian Institution
Description: America's national educational facility with 18 museums, 9 research centers and 120 affiliates around the world.
Location: http://smithsonian.org/
 
  
Directory: Regional / North_America / United_States / California / Localities / L / Los_Angeles / Society_and_Culture / Gangs
Title: The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare
Description: 1984 essay by Stuart Cosgrove explores the 1943 "Zoot-Suit Riots" and the "social and political importance" of the zoot-suit to Mexican-American youths.
Location: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u7sf/u7materials/cosgrove.html
 
  
Directory: Society / History / By_Topic / Science / Engineering_and_Technology / Telegraphy
Title: Western Union Telegraph Company Records
Description: Scope and contents of the collection held at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Archives Center. Features a history of the company and collection. A major resource for researchers.
Location: http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_wu_index.aspx