of the people in Twente, and especially in Enschede. The museum brings back to life the regional weaving traditions and the rapid transformation of agricultural workers and homeworkers into factory hands

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

As soon as you start your tour of the museum you are assailed by the noise of old spinning and weaving machines, leaving you in no doubt that Manchester owed its greatness to cotton. In an audio-visual

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

Elberfeld – were to become strongholds of the textile industry. Some time later yarn processing – dying, weaving and braiding - also took root in Wuppertal. Small non-mechanised factories and domestic workshops

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

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

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

textile production process; print blocks, photographs and Jacquard cards provide an insight into the weaving and printing techniques used by generations of Warner employees. In addition, it preserves nearly

factory itself is of architectural distinction, with a formal entrance between office blocks, and weaving sheds with traceried decoration in terracotta. Workers were at first housed in apartment blocks and

with original equipment or machines, relating to silkworms, the many stages of preparing silk yarn, weaving, dyeing and printing. Many historic sites in the surrounding region were concerned with the manufacture

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

with the acquisition of a range of early 20th century, mainly Bolton made, fine cotton spinning and weaving machinery, mostly in working order. The machinery collection is supplemented by some 800 tools,

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.

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

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

Triangle and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal show how cotton was made and visitors can try their hand at weaving. Begun in 1830, Oak Mount Mill continued to produce cotton until 1979, making it one of the last [...] days when the town led the world in the production of cotton cloth. A largely unbroken sequence of weaving sheds and spinning mills encloses the canal, making this one of the finest surviving Victorian industrial

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

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.

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