Changes in types of products also occured.
Between the end of the 1700s and the beginning of the 1800s the secular supremacy of linen was ousted by the explosion of cotton, more suited to new spinning techniques and aesthetic treatments such as bleaching, the new procedure which made colors brighter and clearer, and “mercerizing”.
In 1820 Europe surpassed India as the largest producer of cotton fabric, with high quality manufacturers such as the printed fabrics of Neuchatel,
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