II, amalgamated with other smaller firms and eventually renamed Hedva. Visitors can see various weaving machines, the results of the weavers' work, including brocade robes for priests, and also a real

Ravensberger spinning mill and its main focus is on the city’s industrial heritage. Some spinning and weaving machines are still in place and there are also displays concerning the celebrated Dürkopp sewing

England. Potters make traditional Jutland black wares and there are demonstrations of home-based weaving. Shops from towns include buildings intended for the sale of fish, salt, hops and haberdashery. The

principal regions of Hungary. It includes numerous industrial history objects such as spinning and weaving shops, leather workers’ premises, wind and water mills and limekilns. In all there are 200 rural

Interactive Museum of Industry, tells the story of its wide range of trades – leather production, weaving, pottery, iron forging, carpentry, ropemaking and knife making. It is located in the house of a Grabovo

from raw wool to finished products. Techniques are demonstrated using small handlooms and full-size weaving machines and products are available in a museum shop. Other objects on show include pattern-books

was an important centre of linen manufactures. William Coulson (1739-1801) established a damask weaving factory, using hand looms, in Lisburn in 1764; his company split in two in 1830s under his sons.

exciting when visitors are shown a production line of liquid oxygen cartridges, as well as slow fuse weaving machines. The highly visible symbol of the pit in Aumetz is the 35 meter high, metal pithead tower

The 300 or so weaving and spinning machines are now at work in China. But the cellars of the old spinning mill are still full of life. Here the waters of the River Wupper have been diverted through a [...] power was transmitted via the line shafts to the various production departments in the spinning, weaving, burling, dying and locksmiths’ shops. Not forgetting the pattern loom shop whose two Jacquard looms

rural village of Killinkoski in southern Finland (300 km north of Helsinki) has been a centre for weaving fine ribbons and tapes since the early twentieth century. Many people still work in the Inka ribbon [...] industrialists in Finland. The museum displays samples of ribbons together with photographs and weaving machines in the original workshops. Also in the Old Factory are other cultural displays, galleries

basket makers, and visitors are able to see the techniques used in the preparation, spinning and weaving of hempen and flaxen fabrics. Many farm animals and poultry live on the site, and the museum has

a centre of textile production in 1469 when it was granted the privilege of weaving coarse woollen fabrics. The right to weave fine yarns was held by the nearby city of Lille with which Roubaix maintained [...] of the textile industry in Flanders. Workshop sessions in which visitors can gain experience in weaving are a special feature.

since the fifteenth century. It closed in the late 1950s but since it revival carding, spinning and weaving machinery dating from the nineteenth century has been used to demonstrate the history of the woollen

single-storey buildings. In one, visitors can see films, models and displays and can experiment with weaving samples by hand. There is also a display about workers and entrepreneurs in the industry. In the [...] museum preserves the wool carding and spinning equipment of the factory, a wooden hand loom and large weaving machines. The equipment is demonstrated and explained by the guides. Visitors can buy textile products

local museum guides. For behind these names are four extant historic weaving looms that are regularly used to demonstrate the weaving techniques used in Lodz at the end of the 19th century. Demonstrations

a double-decker bus and an electric truck. There is also a Blériot monoplane from 1909, textile weaving machinery and displays of armoury, agricultural equipment and craftsmen’s tools. Many mechanical

The displays follow the processes all the way from raw wool to carding, spinning of yarn, dyeing, weaving, finishing and final garments. Hundreds of original artefacts have been brought together in four

Cotton and jute were woven on the site from 1935, and in 1955 a new building was constructed for weaving. Textile manufacturing ceased in 1983, and the buildings now houses several small enterprises. The

combs the loose wool, huge spinning machines turn it into smooth thread to the thunder of automatic weaving looms where shuttles are shooting backwards and forwards. Visitors to the Müller Woollen Mill might

Original features of the museum’s buildings allow visitors to examine the history of brewing, cloth weaving and textile printing and to try some techniques for themselves. Other displays explore flour milling