When they couldn’t salvage the selvedge
27/12/2019
What does the closure of the US’s last-surviving selvedge mill at the start of 2018 say about the wider textile industry there? Shari Shallard reports.
Just after Christmas (timed so that employees could get their paycheques through the holidays), a denim factory in Greensboro, North Carolina, closed its doors for good. Factory closures are almost always bad news for a subset of people; the company’s numbers aren’t matching up and, at the very least, the surrounding town is likely to be left with large numbers of people suddenly out of a job.
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