1834 App. B. 2. I. i. 237 A ribbon factory did exist, but has been given up from loss.
1929 W. F. Neff iii. 108 Miss Martineau..observed the discrimination the men used against the women in the ribbon factories.
2004 in H. K. Rabinowitz vii. 142 Some of my women patients work at the local factories around here—the ribbon factory, the carpet factory, [etc.].