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From raw materials to the factory. European Theme Route Textiles
The thousands of rattling bobbins on the spinning frames in cotton factories have become a byword for industrialisation. British cotton mills were indeed the forerunners of, and models for the industrial revolution. That said, the first textile factory was a silk twining mill. The five-storey building was constructed in Derby as early as 1720, and contained more than 26.000 water-driven spindles. Since the Middle Ages Italy had been the centre of silk processing, and the machines came from there. The problem was that they were incapable of spinning, and simply twisted ...
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Como | Muso didattico della Seta di Como |
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Via Castelnuovo 1 | 22100 Como | Italy |
| The manufacture of silk was established at Como by the early 16th century, and the city has always been the leading centre for the industry, in which Italians made many important innovations. The muse... more >> |
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Covilhã | Museum of Woollen Textiles |
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Rua Marques de Avila e Bolama | 6200 Covilhã | Portugal |
| The town of Covilha in east-central Portugal has been involved with the manufacture of woollen cloth for more than three centuries. An enterprise producing high quality fabrics was set up under the gu... more >> |
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Crespi d’Adda | Crespi d’Adda |
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piazzale Vittorio Veneto 1 | 24042 Crespi d’Adda | Italy |
| Crespi d’Adda is a community where textiles were manufactured in a mill completed in 1878, but it is important chiefly as a model community, designed by Silvio Benigno Crespi n (1868-1944), who had ... more >> |
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Crimmitschau | West Saxony Textile Museum |
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Leipziger Strasse 125 | 08451 Crimmitschau | Germany |
| The town of Crimmitschau lies on the River Pleisse about 17 km north-west of Zwickau. Domestic textile manufacturing flourished in the region in the early 19th century, but from the 1850s production w... more >> |
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Cromarty | Cromarty Courthouse Museum |
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Church Street | IV11 8XA Cromarty | Great Britain |
| Cromarty at the tip of the Black Isle peninsula between the Moray and Cromarty firths, is an example of how the doctrine of ‘Improvement’ was applied in eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries i... more >> |
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Cromford | Derwent Valley Mills |
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Cromford Mill | DE4 3RQ Cromford | Great Britain |
| The first modern factory in history was built in Cromford in the Derwent valley, not far from Nottingham. The Derwent is anything but a fast-flowing river. That said it flows quickly enough to be able... more >> |
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Delmenhorst | Nordwolle |
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Am Turbinenhaus 10-12 | 27749 Delmenhorst | Germany |
| Twelve hours work in suffocating factory rooms followed by a meagre dinner in a house belonging to the company, and maybe a chat over the garden fence with the neighbour before going to bed. This was ... more >> |
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Derby | Derby’s Museum of Industry and History |
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Silk Mill LaneOff Full Street | DE1 3AF Derby | Great Britain |
| The museum of industry in Derby stands on the site of a water-powered five-storey mill built circa 1721 by John and Thomas Lombe to accommodate silk throwing technology that they had observed in Italy... more >> |
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Donetsk | Foundation IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives |
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Ul. Svetlogo Puti 3 | 83029 Donetsk | Ukraine |
| IZOLYATSIA is a non-governmental non-profit arts foundation located on the territory of a former insulation materials plant in Donetsk, Ukraine. The idiosyncratic aesthetics of a semi-abandoned factor... more >> |
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Dornoch | Spinningdale Mill Ruins |
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The Square | IV25 3SD Dornoch | Great Britain |
| The development in the late eighteenth century by Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-92) and others of factories in which textile yarns could be spun by machinery had repercussions in the remotest parts of t... more >> |
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Dortmund | DASA - German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition |
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Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25 | 44149 Dortmund | Germany |
| If you don’t believe that office work is bad for your health you should try the so-called “compulsory posture”, a kind of corset which imitates the unnatural position adopted by most people when... more >> |
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Dundee | Verdant Works |
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West Henderson´s Wynd | DD1 5BT Dundee | Great Britain |
| The ground shakes when the factory thunders into life. Carding machines, drawing frames, spinning machines and weaving looms comb, stretch, whirl, spin and weave the very same thread for which Dundee ... more >> |
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Engelskirchen | Rhineland Industrial Museum Ermen & Engels Cotton Mill |
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Engels-Platz | 51766 Engelskirchen | Germany |
| When Friedrich Engels, the son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In... more >> |
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Enschede | TwentseWelle |
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Het Rozendaal 11 | 7523 XG Enschede | Netherlands |
| Electricity. Running water in the bathroom and toilet. Fine dishes on the table, well-designed furniture. Nowadays we take all this for granted but once it was regarded as an unaffordable luxury. The ... more >> |
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Euskirchen | Rhineland Industrial Museum Mueller Cloth Mill |
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Carl-Koenen-Str. 25b | 53881 Euskirchen | Germany |
| Dust hangs in the air. It smells of oil and wool. Coffee mugs stand forgotten amongst the machines. Pieces of scribbled note paper are lying untidily around. In the factory owner’s office stands a s... more >> |
