textiles and furniture are two different animals.
furniture was done in by air quality rules that required finishes that were not acceptable to the buying public
textile manufacturing was just not competitive. recall if you will it happened twice before. textile manufacturing moved to New England and then later down south in attempt to be competitive
There are exceptions and manufacturers who are successfully bucking the tide. Ashley Furniture is expanding here in NC, manufactured domestically. Maybe they’re able to make it work due to also being retailers?
Furniture outsoucing started way before the EPA existed.
Textile WAS competitive before the rest of the world ate our lunch with “free trade” that means they charge tariffs, but the US doesn’t. Labor costs were way down due to automation before the industry collapsed here. Those very new machines were all boxed up and sent to .... China!