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Article: CIRCA 1801: NEW JACQUARD MILL IS HIGH TECH BUT OLD SCHOOL--A THIRDGENERATION WEAVER BUILDS ON AN INTERNATIONAL 'CONSORTIUM' TO FIND NEWOPPORTUNITIES.
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- HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
- Article date:
- October 26, 1998
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NEW YORK-Even as U.S. textile mills continue to close, it's difficult for Josh Schneider to see the risk in spending $26 million to build a new jacquard mill.
At the turn of the century, Schneider's grandfather, Samuel, had hired out as a gandy dancer laying railroad track across Germany to escape the pogroms of Czarist Russia. The money he earned helped him and his family sail to America, where he started a small weaving business in Paterson, N.J. in the early 1900s.
"My grandmother had been arrested and thrown in prison because she was Jewish," the younger Schneider said. "My grandparents got out with nothing more than the clothes on their back."
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