They had large looms similar to ours and wove on them beautiful fabrics of linen and wool - Hebrew Life and Times by Harold B. Hunting

The manufacturers were thereby enabled to select the most suitable fibres for high priced fabrics and to produce the finer sorts of yarn in much larger quantities - Self Help by Samuel Smiles

The wars of the latter half of the nineteenth century are of unique interest not only because they have built up the great national fabrics of to day but also because they illustrate the truth of that suggestive remark of the great Napoleon The general who does great things is he who also possesses qualities adapted for civil life - The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose