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

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

numerous spinning and weaving factories were established across the Vosges mountain range, including four in the village of Ventron. The museum is housed in a four-storey weaving mill built in 1855 that [...] power, but after 1861 a 30-horse power steam engine transformed the manufacturing process, allowing weaving to continue during dry summer months. The mill closed in 1952 and was left complete and undisturbed [...] provided, illustrating the process of turning cotton into fabric. Temporary exhibitions are hosted, and weaving workshops for children are organised.

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

the history of silk weaving in France and a working loom is demonstrated. Other displays explain the life-cycle of the silkworm and techniques tor making gold and silver threads to weave into silk cloth. [...] Lyon was one of the most important centres for weaving silk for hundreds of years. The working weavers of Lyon called themselves ‘canuts’, which is how the museum gets its name. It is an early example

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

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.

the department of Loire. There have been weavers in the community since the Middle Ages, but the weaving of silk became particularly important in the mid-19th century. Following a strike of weavers in Lyons [...] subsequently contracted, and the last domestic weavers ceased working about 1960.The idea of a museum of weaving in the village was put forward in 1977, and an old workshop owned by the community was used to display [...] company, and the museum occupied it from 1998. Visitors can now see displays about the history of silk weaving in Bussières, together with an assortment of looms, including some of the Jacquard looms used to

1900, Užice got electric lighting, while the weaving mill was the first industrial facility in Serbia to use electricity to operate its machines. The weaving mill grew to be a large textile factory. Some [...] (1858-1921) regarding the Đetinja River water utilisation was accepted by the management of the Užice Weaving Mill Joint Stock Company. Stanojević was responsible for the introduction of the first electric lighting

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

waterwheels to drive looms for weaving. Like most mills in the region this was a small enterprise employing only about ten people in the late nineteenth century. Weaving ceased about 1920 but spinning [...] woollen cloth and in the nineteenth century was applied first to spinning woollen yarn and then to weaving cloth. One of the mills was purchased by the town authority in 1992 and opened as a museum two years

and where three quarters of the population lived directly from damask weaving. The products now called damask are “only” Jacquard weaves. Real damask was in fact a luxury product that was manufactured on

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

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

century numerous small-scale water-powered mills were established to spin yarn, and in some cases to weave cloth. The Trefriw mills south of Conwy on the B5106 road to Betws-y-Coed, date from the 1820s, were [...] Welsh bedspreads, tweeds, travelling rugs, throws and cushions, and visitors are able to view the weaving on certain days. The Pelton wheel turbine installed in 1949 generates electric power to work 50-year-old

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.

Buildings that relate to textile manufactures include a fulling mill, a ribbon weaving shop, a dyehouse and a shop for spinning and weaving goats’ hair. Further aspects of the city’s past are illustrated in the

Gemeindeverwaltung Niederweisa and has comprehensive displays on three floors detailing the history of weaving. The museum’s collection includes a range of hand looms and ten power looms of 1921-1955. A short [...] there are extensive displays of woven fabrics. There is a workshop in which visitors are able to weave for themselves. There is also a restaurant, and the former mill is a venue for many cultural events

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

silk goods manufacturer dating from 1868. The large windows facing south gave good light for manual weaving. From 1908 it was the factory of Hubert Gotzes and his sons, who specialised in church vestments [...] , which translates as 'prepared for the Lord's table'. The heart of the museum is the preserved weaving room, which was used until 1992, when the last owner, Erwin Maus, decided to close it after the last