Pioneers in Textile industry

 

Today India stands proudly ahead in the list of textile industries in the world. Often we wonder how all this started - well, here is a small recap of the pioneering textile industry.

The first Indian cotton cloth mill was established in 1818 at Fort Gloaster near Kolkata, although this mill was far from being a success story. The second mill which was established by KGN Daber in 1854 is called the true foundation of modern cotton industry in India. Its name was Bombay Spinning and weaving Company, Bombay. Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company was the first cotton mill to be established in Bombay, India, on 7 July 1854 at Tardeo by Cowaszee Nanabhoy Davar (1815-73).

Jamsetji founded a commercial textile company with a capital of INR 21,000 in 1868, which ultimately became known as The Tata Group. He was 29 years old and wiser from nine years of working with his father. His first trip to England was soon after, where he learned about the textile industry.

 

 

 

The Industrial Revolution began in Europe at the end of the 18th century. Before this time, people only had access to limited resources as most goods were made by hand. Great Britain had been a large producer of wool, cotton, and linen materials, but did not have the means to produce fabrics in large quantities. At the height of the Enlightenment period, English inventor Richard Arkwright had the idea to make the spinning thread and weaving textiles more efficient. He created the original spinning machine, allowing textiles to be woven faster to produce more. A water wheel was used to power the spinning machine, thus leading to more high-powered industrialism. Rivers and streams were becoming a vital force in mass-producing goods. English industrialist Samuel Slater brought the ideas of these mass-producing machines to economically independent America after he spent time mesmerizing how the machines worked. This became the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in America.

 

As coal and water began driving the efficiency of the production of goods, so did the demand rise. Textile factories, or mills, began to improve the manufacturing of fabrics. Industrial revolution machines allowed factories to produce textiles on a much larger scale by directly weaving thread and turning it into fabric. The first textile mill appeared in Europe in the 1740s, prior to Samuel Slater bringing industrialization to America. As demand continued to rise, so did the number of textile mills across Europe and America, which created a whole new employment culture.

By combining the invention of John Kay with his ideas, Arkwright built the first-ever water-powered textile mill, known as the Cromford Mill. Built in Derbyshire, England, in 1771, the Cromford Mill became a prototype for the production of future mills.

Source – Wikidpedia