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Christy (towel manufacturer)
Christy (also known as Christy UK and Christy Towels) is a long-established manufacturer of household linens and is known as the inventor of the first industrially produced looped cotton (terrycloth) towel. It was founded in 1850 in the mill town of Droylsden, Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester).
== History ==
John Rylands Library archives show that the roots of the Christy company date back to at least 1833, when the Stockport firm of W.M. Christy & Sons Ltd – established by banker and hatter William Miller Christy – was manufacturing cotton goods. It was his son, the noted collector and ethnologist Henry Christy, who discovered the product that would make the company famous. While travelling in Istanbul, he discovered an example of the looped pile fabric that we know today as terry towelling, but which was initially known as the 'Turkish towel'.
The company found a method of recreating the looped pile fabric on an industrial scale using a machine which was designed by one of their employees Samuel Holt, who successfully patented the design. The first Christy towels factory opened in Droylsden in 1850. A year later, Christy towels were displayed at The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace and Queen Victoria became an early client. By 1891, the company's Fairfields Mill in Droylsden had 310 looms and 30,000 spindles, according to ''Worrall's Cotton Spinners Directory''.〔
Christy was bought by Fine Spinners and Doublers in 1955, and became part of the Courtaulds group eight years later.〔 The company relocated from its Droylsden base to Hyde, Greater Manchester in the late 1980s. When Courtaulds divested itself of its textile businesses in 2000, Christy was sold to a management buyout team.
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