the important Swiss engineering industry, with names such as Rieter (spinning machines) and Rüti (weaving machines). Since 1991 more than 70 volunteers have been running a unique museum of industrial culture [...] historical machines from different times can be used to trace the path from raw cotton to yarn. In the weaving mill it is possible to trace how productivity increased rapidly due to technical developments and

learn various weaving techniques, spooling, as well as sectional and direct warping procedures. As the machinery and equipment park of the museum covers almost the entire history of weaving, from the simple [...] simple handlooms of the early days via Jacquard looms and dobby machines up to the weaving machines of the 20th century, visitors can get an exciting overview of several centuries of textile history. Looms

with spinning wheels and hand-looms and large-scale industrial machines for carding, spinning and weaving. The historical collections contain many artefacts that show the history of cloth making from the

Museum for Lace and Fashion in Calais too. The museum, which opened in 2009, is housed in a historic weaving and lace-making factory. Since then, a stunning futurist extension has been added, its curved glass

Stour Vale Mills, presents traditional cloth weaving techniques on 19th century handlooms as well as magnificent 19th & 20th century power looms still weaving carpet. The story of Carpet Manufacture in

In 1880 Karl Wilhelm Koch and Fritz te Kock founded a carpet weaving factory named “Vollmond” in Oelsnitz in the Vogtland area of Saxony. Before World War I, the company had become the largest carpet

Visitors can see self-acting mules used for spinning woollen yarn on the ground floor, and looms for weaving woollen fabrics on the floor above, and can then progress to shops where fulling and other finishing

and manufactures found in most Skansen-type museums, mills, smithies, houses used for spinning and weaving, and fulling mills. A particularly imposing exhibit is a 6-sail windmill from the Vyzhnytsya district

Weaving has a prominent place in the museum at Kretinga in north-west Lithuania. The collection originated in 1935, and the museum retained its identity during the Second Word War. It opened displays in

of Hainaut, bordered by Flemish-speaking West Flanders and the French department of Nord. Linen weaving became established in the area in the twelfth century, and by the seventeenth century local weavers

in the 1970s and the museum opened in 1997. It displays machines used for carding, spinning and weaving, including Jacquard looms and a particularly rare domestic loom of 1813. On the second floor are

spinning mill was built in 1863. A large steam-powered weaving shed was added in 1910, when there were 400 workers. Production continued until 1981. The weaving shed has Art Nouveau lettering for the company name: [...] collection of looms and other machines the museum shows how to weave in different textiles and how processes have changed. It demonstrates weaving with a traditional hand loom and a Jacquard loom, braiding

from earliest times. The tools that were needed to shear, to wash, to comb and card, to spin and weave wool can be touched by visitors as well. With mechanisation on the rise the first factories were

„The yarns of the past weaving the future“: in line with its motto, the three neighbouring locations of the Museum of Woollen Textiles in Covilhã explore the traces of local wool processing over the centuries [...] various textile workshops for visitors of all ages and experience what it feels like to card, spin and weave wool with your own hands. In order to fully grasp the diverse industrial heritage that is scattered

the past 100 years. People are also focused in the Town Museum featuring textile machines and a weaving mill within a building that was formerly used as a cotton mill. Even the university is located in

du Tisserand is housed in a former silk weaving factory from the early 20th century in the small town of La Bâtie-Montgascon. It tells the story of silk weaving for over 200 years in the Duphiné region [...] The techniques are demonstrated using working equipment of yarn preparation, handloom weaving and mechanised weaving. Many earlier examples of equipment are also preserved in the museum. Displays show the

Visitors go inside an enormous turbine of 1899 and its water pipe and see tunnels, spinning and weaving sheds and maintenance workshops. Displays show the history of the factory, textile machinery and

whole process of making cloth, from raw material to the finished product can be seen. It includes a weaving shed with 40 looms powered by a steam engine.

the 19th century as the first city of northern Greece to industrialise. Its cotton spinning and weaving mills sold products across the Ottoman Empire and beyond. The Industrial Heritage Centre is housed [...] The exhibition History Threads presents the history of the city's textile industry. Spinning and weaving machines are displayed alongside social material that ensures a focus on people and their stories

a forge house of the 1930s, a carpenter’s workshop, a house filled with examples of traditional weaving and a school.