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• ...that cross stitches (example pictured) are part of the embroidery traditions of the Balkans, Middle East, Afghanistan, Colonial America and Victorian England?
• ...that Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?
• ...that the Montgomery Worsted Mills, a Registered Historic Place in Montgomery, New York, now earn most of their money by generating hydroelectric power from the nearby Wallkill River, rather than the manufacture of textiles?

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