Color + industry, the making of modern textiles

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These images of textile production factories make me incredibly happy. Something to do with the scale, the other-worldliness, the strange assault of color against the everyday dull of the factories where textiles are produced.  

Images from "The Weird Tech and Brilliant Colors of the American Textile Mill" in Wired, Feb. 2015.

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Art, HistoryJessica McCraryAmerican industry, American textiles, factory, garment industry, industry, textile industry, textiles