But from the late 17th century the town into a thriving textile centre.

The city of Tiruppur, at the heart of the district, is a textile center.

The Russian town, once a thriving textile center, has been squeezed by the demise of the state system.

It is located very closer to Erode, a well known textile centre.

Like all the textile centers in Russia, the town's prosperity declined after the perestroika.

Also, Heerlen was already the textile centre of the region.

It has always been a big textile center of silk weaving.

However, most of textile centres in state on decline, producing low value goods.

The city, a textile center of 40,000, had the region's highest death toll, losing nine residents, including three children who died when their house collapsed.

Lowell, the first large-scale planned textile center in America, remained the nation's largest into the 1850s.