The Sedó Colony was the first and largest company town in the textile industry of Catalunya. It was begun in 1846 by Miquel Puig i Catasús and expanded under Antoni Sedó i Pàmies, whose name it takes. [...] but closed in 1980. It was integrated from spinning the cotton yarn to finishing and dyeing the textile. The museum of the colony is in part of the factory. Visitors go inside an enormous turbine of 1899 [...] spinning and weaving sheds and maintenance workshops. Displays show the history of the factory, textile machinery and products and a film and model of the huge complex. Tours take visitors to see the waterfall

factory, built in 1841. It is near the eastern end of the Passeig del Ter on the riverside. Many textile factories used waterpower here from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum shows the process of cleaning

The Marfà knitted textile factory at Mataró on the coast east of Barcelona was built in 1880-1 by Gaietà Marfà i Baladia, who came from a local family of hosiers. It integrated all the processes from spinning [...] the history of the industry since the eighteenth century. The second floor shows the museum’s rich textile and clothing collections.

that specialises in textile printing. Some buildings of the gas works remain alongside the purpose-built museum, which opened in 2002. It explains the art and technology of textile printing, its history [...] Catalunya as a leading centre of textile printing from the 1930s. It shows processes from conceptual drawings to tests, printing blocks, presses and finished textiles. It also looks at the chemistry of [...] screen-printing and digital inkjet. There is a reference collection of thousands of examples of printed textiles and an archive and library. It is also a museum for local history and archaeology from prehistory

which traditional craft workshops were replaced by factories that made components for the Catalan textile industry. It is sited in the former Vidal factory, built between 1888 and 1901. The three-storey [...] floor, the Museum explains the manufacture of objects such as cotton reels and spindles for the textile industry, from collecting raw materials to assembling finished products. The first floor explains

Blue dyes, especially ones made from the indigo plant, have been used to colour textiles for thousands of years. In Hungary and other parts of eastern Europe dyeing and printing in blue-and-white patterns [...] became part of folk costumes. UNESCO recognises the tradition as Intangible Cultural Heritage. The textiles were produced in small workshops from the seventeenth century, then in larger workshops. The Kékfestő [...] museum in 1962. The cellars include the washing room and the dyeing room with large vats into which textiles were lowered on metal frames. Upstairs are a room where patterns were printed with wooden blocks

industrialists. They chose the area for their new cotton-spinning factory because of the existing textile industry and good water-power potential from the River Orco. It had a basement for the drive-shafts

including industrialisation, brewing, tourism, timber and forestry, glass production, the paper and textile industries and much more. The collections show the region's belated revival after the Second World

border with Germany. Its industrial history began in the mid-19th century with the manufacture of textiles and the processing of cotton. This was followed by the metal, mechanical and electrical industries

have housed the LIUC University. For almost 150 years, Cantoni was a major player in the Italian textile industry. The factory underwent continuous expansion and adaptation, gradually integrating other

for making high-quality 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 [...] weavers, which is now the last that is active in France. A final audiovisual gives a flavour of the textile heritage that is still alive in the area today. The shop sells locally made products.

town of Mouzon in north-east France. A pioneering factory for the industrial production of felt textiles was opened at Mouzon by Alfred Sommer, a dyer, in 1880. He expanded it in 1887 by taking over a

and large windows. Over half the working population 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

and the 36-m chimney survive. 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

by traditional methods and guide visitors through the processes. Visitors follow the journey from textile or wood fibres to finished paper. A waterwheel is connected to ‘Hollander beaters’ for preparing

town by SNIA Viscosa from 1937. The factory produced cellulose fibres to manufacture the artificial textile rayon. The vegetable raw material was the reed Arundo donax which was grown on land reclaimed by

papermaking and printing in Supraśl dates back to the 17th century. It later became a centre of textile manufacture. The pioneers of printing with movable type in the region were Ivan Fyodorov and Pyotr

from prehistory to the present, covering not just the medieval past and the leather industries but textile manufacturing, international trade, community and society. The displays utilise text, artefacts,

This is a museum about woollen manufacture by both handlooms and machines in the towns of Mira de Aire and Minde in the 20th century. It is a small carpet factory that opened in 1933 called Tapetes Do

Pyrenees. It is immaculately preserved. It was built between 1912 and 1918 to supply electricity to textile factories near Barcelona. It now supplies the national grid and is operated by ACCIONA. Its original