"Hand spinners in India required 50,000 hours to produce 100 pounds of cotton yarn. ... The owners of new weaving mills continued to provide weavers with cotton thread and paid them for the finished product. ... India's industrial position was reversed as she became a supplier of raw cotton to Britain and an importer of machine-manufactured cotton textiles from Britain. Britain's new mills required unprecedented quantities of good quality cotton. ... The many physical dangers inherent in the early factories might include working in mills with temperatures of more than 80 degre...

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Manufacturing was often done in people's homes which were known as the cotton industry which used manual labor and hand tools/basic machines. ... At the time England was talented in the making of wool and cotton cloth. ... "The Japanese silk industry, an export staple, was already suffering from the advent of artificial silk-like fibers produced by Western chemical giants. ...

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Some components within the paper are prone to cause this problem if the paper is made from mechanical wood pulp or ground wood pulp instead of pure cotton fibers, for example, it is more likely to discolor or to cause photochemical reaction when expose to sunlight (Banik & Bruckle 2012, p. 291). ...

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