| CLOTH | General word any of the textiles once subject to sumptuary laws (5) |
| HANGINGS | Decorative textiles once seen at Tyburn (8) |
| BROCADE | One of the textiles woven on a Jacquard loom often with gold or silver threads (7) |
| LUDDITE | Any of the textile workers in England opposed to mechanisation who organised machine-breaking in the |
| AYMARA | Indigenous people (and language) of the Altiplano region of west-central South America, once subject to the Inca empire (6) |
| MEADOW | Water -; painted by John Constable and described by Thomas Hardy, a type of grassland once subject to seasonal flooding or "floating" to boost its hay/crops (6) |
| HALFCROWN | Coin once subject to fifty percent cap? (4,5) |
| DAEGU | Large city in South Korea (pop about 2.5 million), known as the "Textile" City" (5) |
| BALED | Bundled, like cotton going to the textile mill |
| YARNS | Tales that are spun by the textile worker (5) |
| LODZ | Major city of central Poland, a centre of the textile industry (4) |
| HALIFAX | Town in West Yorkshire; a centre of the textile industry from the 15th Century (7) |
| REVOLUTION | Mechanisation of the textile industries marked the beginning of the Industrial ... |
| COTTONGIN | Machinery in the textiles industry - it cannot go without a fluid (6,3) |
| LUDDITES | Members of a movement of British workers (1811-16) who destroyed factory machinery that they saw as a threat to their jobs, especially in the textile industry (8) |
| CRINOLINE | A type of hooped petticoat synonymous with the textile of horsehair and linen/wool originally used to make said skirt expander (9) |
| STALYBRIDGE | Town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester formerly associated with the textile industry (11) |
| LOOM | Behold! The Medical Officer has returned to the textile industry (4) |
| SPINDLE | The --- tree, Euonymus europaeus, of Europe and W. Asia yields a hard wood formerly used as a component in the textile industry (7) |
| REELS | Not lively dances at the textile workers' ball! (6,5) |
