years later. The 80 or so complete buildings include many where craft manufactures, including linen weaving, the making of pottery, iron-working and the processing of amber took place.

development of textile technology from prehistoric times, and include spinning mules and interactive weaving exhibits. The museum includes a demonstration centre for textile crafts. It is highly regarded by

opened in 1990. It illustrates all aspects of textile manufacture, not just preparation, spinning and weaving but production of carpets and fabrics for dresses and furnishings. The museum is the base for the

in many colours for sewing, using a technique that gave cotton thread a quality similar to silk. Weaving mills in the town popularised the ‘Paisley pattern’ of teardrop shapes based on traditional models

installed four waterwheels, two of which were of iron, 9.7 m in diameter. A large single-storey weaving shed, with half its roof of glass, was built on the opposite side of the river, and linked with the

and intrigue visitors of all ages, including the world’s only surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill. See our live demonstrations every day, including Peace, the 500 horse power tandem compound [...] the looms. At its peak, the engine would have provided enough energy to drive 1138 looms in the weaving shed, as well as other machinery around the mill. In turn it is powered by the Lancashire Boilers [...] were 1138 looms running (including some which were kept at the neighbouring Primrose Mill). We still weave cloth which we use to make a range of products called Simply Textiles.

production as it generally occurred in the 18th century: washing and drying the wool, spinning and weaving, milling, cropping and finally sealing the finished material. Up above in the Blue Room the Lord

Ribbon Weaving Museum began in 1989 and is now part of the Museum Industiekultur Wuppertal. In 2020 it moved to the Nordstadt district, where it is housed in part of a five-storey former ribbon-weaving factory [...] are images, documents and interactive exhibits to relate the history of weaving in the region. A traditional domestic ribbon-weaving workshop is reconstructed. Products on show include ribbons, labels, shoelaces [...] of Wuppertal at that time were employed in the textile and clothing industries, of which ribbon weaving and braiding was an important part. The factory was owned by Villbrandt & Zehnder and later worked

traditional products such as bricks and food products but also high quality silk garments. Three silk weaving firms still operate in the town and you can visit Vanner´s and Stephen Walters´s retail outlets. [...] Sudbury was the home of the painter Thomas Gainsborough from another of Sudbury´s silk-weaving families. The Granary was built in 1807 and is Listed Grade 2. It stands in a canal basin at the end or head

g the century-old history of the Saxon textile industry by automatically spinning, knitting and weaving. One of the highlights of this fascinating tour is the factory‘s engine house with its attractive

Brothers (Gebruder Pfau). The company originated in 1859 when Friedrich and Antoni Pfau set up a hand-weaving business in Leipziger Strasse, where in 1885 they built a four-storey factory for the manufacture [...] tour, the visitors experience the manufacture of the scarf from woolen fluff to carding, spinning, weaving, and defrosting to the packaging of the pieces of cloth. The factory halls look like they've just

d saw mill and a country store of 1871. The Kurssi farmstead shows how in some parts of Finland weaving was an important summer time occupation before the development of textile factories. There are occasional

neighbouring building, the Paradise Mill, knowledgeable guides demonstrate the intricate processes of weaving. The mill contains 26 restored jacquard handlooms. Exhibitions and room sets illustrate life in Paradise

silk fabrics since the 18th century. The museum includes several working textile machines for silk weaving from the 19th and 20th centuries. It also shows historical photographs and examples of costumes made

Karl August Almgren established a silk mill in Stockholm in 1833, and it subsequently grew into a sizeable manufacturing complex, with some four-storey buildings. Some of the Jacquard looms that he in

used water power and local supplies of wood to provide bobbins for the large number of spinning and weaving factories in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Stott Park is the region’s only working bobbin mill. It produced

working mill was begun in 1835 to produce the wooden bobbins vital to the Lancashire spinning and weaving industries. Although small compared to other mills, some 250 men and boys (some drafted in from [...] quarter of a million bobbins a week. Stott Park created the wooden bobbins vital to the spinning and weaving industries of Lancashire. Typical of mills across Cumbria, today you can see industry from a bygone

There has been ribbon-weaving in Großröhrsdorf, near Dresden, since the seventeenth century. It remained a mainly domestic industry until the early nineteenth century, when larger workshops were established [...] built in the 1890s as part of the J. G. Schurig company. A film introduces the history of ribbon weaving in the region. Schurig’s steam engine of 1896 still has the connected generating equipment that allowed

the collapse in November of 1889 of part of the façade which killed 29 women workers in a nearby weaving shed. The factory was modelled on the Palazzo Ducale in Venice. The building is of polychrome brick

Valdagno is a town with a long history of wool spinning and weaving. In 1836 Luigi Marzotto established a large new woollen mill. His son and his grandson Vittorio Emanuele Marzotto continued to expand [...] reinforced concrete with large top-lit spaces. The museum opened in 2000. It displays spinning and weaving machines of different eras that were installed for training and research purposes. The textile industries