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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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Aalst | Aalst industrieel erfgoed |
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Oude Vismarkt 1 | 9300 Aalst | Belgium |
| The route "Belforten van de Arbeid" consits of a circular route of about 10 km during which visitors can learn about 17 industrial sites concerning the industrial past of the city of Aalst. ... more >> |
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Arhus | The Old Town |
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Viborgvej 2 | 8000 Arhus | Denmark |
| The Old Town in Arhus, the principal city of Jutland, is unusual amongst European open air museums in that it consists largely of urban buildings rather than farmsteads that have been removed from the... more >> |
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Augsburg | tim - Textile and industrial museum |
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Provinostraße 46 | 86153 Augsburg | Germany |
| Augsburg, a free city until 1806 when it was incorporated in Bavaria, was one of the wealthiest cities in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. That wealth was founded in part on trading in... more >> |
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Balmaseda | La Encartada Museum |
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Bo El Penueco 11 | 48.800 Balmaseda | Spain |
| The factory called La Encartada at Balmaseda, 24 km south-west of Bilbao, was established in 1892 by a locally-born entrepreneur Marcos Arena Bermejillo, with capital he had acquired during a stay in ... more >> |
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Bärnau | German Button Museum |
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Tachauer Strasse 2 | 95671 Bärnau | Germany |
| The town of Bärnau in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz), 48 km south-east of Hof, has for centuries been one of the chief sources of buttons in Germany, and the industry continues today.
The museu... more >> |
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Benburb | Benburb Valley Heritage Centre |
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Milltown Road | BT71 7LZ Benburb | Great Britain |
| The most important industry in north-eastern Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries was the manufacture of linen, and one of the best monuments of that industry in the Bunburb Valley Heritage Centre, ... more >> |
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Bergisch Gladbach | Regional Museum of Mining, Handicraft and Trade |
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Burggraben 9-12 | 51429 Bergisch Gladbach | Germany |
| The cellar is amazing! Suddenly it opens out into a complete mining gallery! Rough hewn timber struts support the walls and ceilings, trolleys and drills stand at the ready, a hoisting cage is there, ... more >> |
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Berlin | German Technical Museum |
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Trebbiner Strasse 9 | 10963 Berlin | Germany |
| The German Technical Museum holds one of the largest collections of its kind in Europe, but dates only from 1982. It was initially a museum of railways, and is based at the former Anhalter Bahnhof, on... more >> |
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Bielsko-Biala | Museum of Technology and the Textile Industry |
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ul. Sukiennicza 7 | 43-300 Bielsko-Biala | Poland |
| The twin towns of Bielsko and Biala on either side of the Biala River, that make up the modern city of Bielsko-Biala both have medieval origins. They were part of the Habsburg Empire between 1772 and ... more >> |
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Bocholt | TextilWerk Bocholt LWL Industrial Museum |
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Uhlandstraße 50 | 46397 Bocholt | Germany |
| Most of the people in the Münsterland region of North-West Germany used to live from agriculture. But during the industrial revolution the town of Bocholt in the west of the region became one of the ... more >> |
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Bologna | Museum of Industrial Heritage |
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Fornace GalottiVia della Beverara 123 | 40131 Bologna | Italy |
| Bologna is one of Italy’s principal industrial cities, and has also been a major centre for the study of industrial archaeology. The Aldini-Valeriani Museum and the University of Bologna collaborate... more >> |
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Bolton | Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive |
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Le Mans Crescent | BL1 1SE Bolton | Great Britain |
| The textile machinery collection is an extremely important one. The museum began collecting textile machines in the 19th century and amongst the items at the heart of this collection is the only survi... more >> |
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Boras | Textile History Museum |
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Druveforsvagen 8 | 50433 Boras | Sweden |
| Boras, in central Sweden, has been an important textile centre since the sixteenth century, and in the nineteenth century specialised in the production of cotton, but one of the principal themes of it... more >> |
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Bradford | Saltaire Village |
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City Hall | BD1 1HY Bradford | Great Britain |
| David Hockney painted Salts Mill in warm ochre tones. Today both the painter and the place are world-famous. Hockney was born in the Northern industrial city of Bradford. And Salts Mill, an old textil... more >> |
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Bradford | Manningham Mill |
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Lilycroft Road | BD9 5BD Bradford | Great Britain |
| Manningham Mill on the north side of Bradford, with a floor space of 11 ha and a chimney 78 m tall, is one of the most imposing textile factories in Europe. It was designed in the Italianate style by ... more >> |
