Inside the Colorful Chaos of America’s Aging Textile Mills
America’s industrial revolution was woven on looms and spun on spools, but it’s been decades since the textile industry began declining. Chis Payne, an architect-turned-photographer, began shooting US textile factories in 2010. He’s kept it up, too, amassing a visual diary of a changing industry. Most of us think of mills as austere, black-and-white places,…