Lyman prospered for years as a textile town, but by 2005 the last mill was closed.

Most of the textile towns and the ports also employ some men or women in these industries.

The busy timber and textile town had a population of 21,000 until the fighting started in April, more than 60 percent Muslim.

The talk radio station in this Piedmont furniture and textile town has been flooded with calls from other stations across the country.

Historically Zábřeh was a textile town profiting from its location next to the international railway.

Lowell would be the model for textile towns for many decades to follow.

At one factory in the textile town of Mahalla, more than 1,500 workers walked out and blocked roads, continuing a long-running dispute with the owner.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, Arras, France was a thriving textile town.

When she was six her parents moved to the growing textile town of Great Harwood, near Blackburn.

A textile town almost from the start, by 1850 it was the home of seven busy woolen mills.