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Bibb Manufacturing Company was a textile company founded in Macon, Georgia, in 1876 and was sold to Dan River in 1998. Bibb Manufacturing Company, also known as "The Bibb Company" produced cotton products such as sheets, comforters, towels, curtains, and bedspreads.
Jacquard 1. The fabric made on a Jacquard loom. 2. The attachment for a hand loom or power loom that allows warp threads to be individually controlled. This enables the production of Jacquard fabric. Jacquard loom The Jacquard loom was the first machine to use punched cards. It uses punched cards to control the pattern being woven.
Roswell Mill refers to a cluster of mills located in Fulton County near Vickery Creek in Roswell, Georgia. [2] The mills were best known for producing finished textiles from raw materials grown on nearby plantations, and the group was "the largest cotton mill in north Georgia" at its height.
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Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is a formerly operating mill complex located in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Construction of the complex began in 1881 on the south side of the Georgia Railroad line, east of Downtown Atlanta, on the site of the Atlanta Rolling Mill. The site now includes separate phases of multi-family dwellings ...
In 1975, the Simmons corporate headquarters moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly thereafter, the company research and development team also relocated to Georgia, to a building in what is today Peachtree Corners. [6] In 1995, the company's R&D division moved into a new home, the Simmons Institute for Technology and Education (SITE). [6]
This is a list of Georgia companies, current and former businesses whose headquarters are, or were, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Companies based in Georgia
Overshot weave coverlets were made with a plain woven undyed cotton warp and weft and repeating geometric patterns made with a supplementary dyed woolen weft. Made on a simple four-harness loom , overshot coverlets were often made in the home and remained a common craft in rural Appalachia into the early 20th century.