developments illustrate an exciting high-tech sector. Children follow their own museum path on which they weave, knit or print. Special exhibitions, fashion shows, lectures and concerts complete the programme.

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

Pyrenees from the mid-19th century. Customers brought wool and took away finished yarn for knitting or weaving. The factory at Vielha is typical – a very small stone building on the bank of the River Nere at

2012. Visitors are still able to see the mill wheel and the machines for throwing, doubling and weaving silk. Whitchurch is a common place name in the United Kingdom, and there was also a short-lived silk

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

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

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

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

was open from 1996 to 2019. Original exhibits include objects from the textile industry and carpet weaving, a printing press from 1845 that produced a pioneering daily newspaper and examples of commercial

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

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.

in Jutland. Early industry is represented by a water-powered wool spinning mill, a steam-worked weaving mill, a brewery, a distillery, a tobacco warehouse, a tannery, a printing shop and a rope walk. The

making silk, from the collection of the cocoons to winding the silk from them, spinning thread and weaving textiles. Displays and videos tell visitors about the entrepreneurs and the lives of nineteenth-century

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

around Albstadt, about 60 kilometres south of Stuttgart. Knitted textiles have continuous yarn while weaving has interlaced yarn. It is used to make ‘jersey’ material, underwear and stockings in continuous

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

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

of food shops for employees, a school, a chapel and a tramway. Visitors can see demonstrations of weaving by former employees, and can take part in workshops showing how to print on silk to make scarves

the shoulders of the museum staff winding, shearing and pulling and can witness how Jacquards looms weave pre-programmed patterns from a confusing number of wires. The towels and tablecloths that are produced

further way of treating wool, is a Dutch felting machine. The museum also offers courses in spinning, weaving and dyeing. It is managed by the same foundation as the nearby Moulin de la Rouzique.