Tekstilni materijali (s leva na desno:tkani pamuk, smoto, štampani pamuk, platno, filc, saten svila, platno, polivinil)
Tekstilna industrija je granaindustrije koja se bavi preradom vlaknastih sirovina i izradomtkanina, pletenih proizvoda i prediva. Oslanja sepoljoprivrednu proizvodnju iz koje crpi potrebne sirovine:vuna,lan,pamuk,svila,juta i dr. Ovo je jedna od najstarijih industrijskih grana. Krajnji produkt proizvodnje suodeća i razne vrste tkanina.
Mastilo, Natalija (2005):Rečnik savremene srpske geografske terminologije, Geografski fakultet, Beograd
Collier, Ann M (1970), A Handbook of Textiles, Pergamon Press, pp. 258, ISBN0-08-018057-4
Copeland, Melvin Thomas.The cotton manufacturing industry of the United States (Harvard University Press, 1912)online
Cameron, Edward H. Samuel Slater, Father of American Manufactures (1960) scholarly biography
Conrad, Jr., James L. "'Drive That Branch': Samuel Slater, the Power Loom, and the Writing of America's Textile History,"Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 1–28in JSTOR
Griffiths, T., Hunt, P.A., and O’Brien, P. K. "Inventive activity in the British textile industry",Journal of Economic History, 52 (1992), pp. 881–906.
Griffiths, Trevor; Hunt, Philip; O’Brien, Patrick. "Scottish, Irish, and imperial connections: Parliament, the three kingdoms, and the mechanization of cotton spinning in eighteenth-century Britain,"Economic History Review, Aug 2008, Vol. 61 Issue 3, pp 625–650
Smelser; Neil J.Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry (1959)
Tucker, Barbara M. "The Merchant, the Manufacturer, and the Factory Manager: The Case of Samuel Slater,"Business History Review, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 297–313in JSTOR
Tucker, Barbara M. Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860 (1984)
Woytinsky, W. S., and E. S. Woytinsky.World Population and Production Trends and Outlooks (1953) pp 1051–98; with many tables and maps on the worldwide textile industry in 1950
