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

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

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

It includes many machines for unwinding cocoons and for doubling and twisting, as well as looms weaving. There is a section on new research that is continually being carried out on silk. The museum is

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

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

„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

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

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.

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

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

a beekeepers house a distillery for vodka, and a cheese factory. There are demonstrations of the weaving of straw and willow twigs, and arena activities include horse riding, jousting and archery. The museum

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

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

panels so that visitors can trace the process of silk making from the silkworm to spinning yarn and weaving finished textiles. Social history displays highlight the importance of work by women and children

Original features of the museum’s buildings allow visitors to examine the history of brewing, cloth weaving and textile printing and to try some techniques for themselves. Other displays explore flour milling

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

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

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

process of woollen manufacture can be understood, from the preparation of raw wool through dyeing to weaving and finishing. Staff demonstrate techniques on working machinery and visitors handle samples of wool