The Rebirth Of The North Carolina Textile Industry

By Nicole Campbell,

Published November 26, 2013 at 11:34 AM EST

An employee performs quality control on clothing made at the Mortex textile mill in Wendell, North Carolina

For decades, the textile industry was an essential part of North Carolina鈥� economy. But the industry took a huge hit in the early 2000s due to outsourcing and high rates of automation.

Today textile businesses in the state are innovating and producing novel types of textiles. Host Frank Stasio talks with , dean of the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University; and Robert Newton, director of the documentary, . This is the first in the series, The State of Industries in North Carolina.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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