area. Now the Red House, more than anything else, stands as a reminded of the splendid period of textile production in Monschau.

The Warner Textile Archive holds an inspiring and unique collection of more than 60,000 textiles, 10,000 paper designs, pattern books, record books, photographs and documentary material. Elegant velvets [...] works, all reflecting the stylistic currents of their time. The collection also casts light on the textile production process; print blocks, photographs and Jacquard cards provide an insight into the weaving [...] printing techniques used by generations of Warner employees. In addition, it preserves nearly 1,000 textile items collected by the Warner designers for inspiration over the years, including hand beaded caps

community where textiles were manufactured in a mill completed in 1878, but it is important chiefly as a model community, designed by Silvio Benigno Crespi n (1868-1944), who had studied the textile industry

which Italians made many important innovations. The museum shares the premises of the Setificio, the textile school, and includes sections, all with original equipment or machines, relating to silkworms, the

woollen cloth was introduced by a state-sponsored company in 1764. The German Wilhelm Mundy set up a textile enterprise in 1774, and was followed by the Offermann-Thomann company who introduced mechanised spinning [...] smuggling machines from England. From 1816 their factory was powered by a London-built steam engine. The textile industry stimulated the development of engineering, and companies in Brno came to manufacture steam [...] motorcars, armaments and telegraphic equipment. The technical Museum has displays relating to both textiles and mechanical engineering and a separate department relating to public transport, has large collection

century to the present day. MTVS - Musée du textile et de la vie sociale ( Museum of Textiles and Social Life) Fourmies was the principal centre of the woollen textile industry in France in the second half of [...] de l'Avesnois is a 'Musée de France' located in the heart of two former industrial sites in the textile and glass industries, emblematic of the Avesnois-Thiérache region: the former Prouvost-Masurel spinning

the 19th century the principal centre in France for the manufacture of woollen, cotton and linen textiles. Some handloom weavers’ cottages remain but the town also accommodates the museum, opened in 2001

celebrated for the manufacture of printed cotton goods, and subsequently became a leading centre of the textile and engineering industries. The museum of printing on fabrics began with the establishment of an

affected people's lives over 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

1779, has a memorable porch and dressed stone arcades, but many of the other buildings used for textile production are difficult to identify. Local history is illustrated in the Municipal Museum.

dedicates a whole storey to textile manufacture because cotton was the driving force behind the industrial development of the city. Not for nothing is the museum located in an old textile factory that offers the

has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź. On the ground floor, devices and machines rattle [...] past. Last but not least, the second storey is all about fashion and textiles - historical fabrics as well as contemporary textile art. An interactive multimedia presentation takes visitors to the Łódź [...] backdrop of a 19th century group of buildings: Ludwik Geyer's "White Factory", one of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a

The Dijonval cloth factory at Sedan has the appearance of a palace rather than a textile mill, and is an evocative monument to the role of the state in the economy of France of the ancien regime. The factory

notable industrial cities. Nearby coal mines stimulated the growth of ironworking, glassmaking, textiles, particularly ribbons, and the manufacture of armaments in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

One of the best-preserved landscape of the domestic system of textile manufactures is in the extensive parish of Saddleworth, comprising the ancient townships of Delph, Diggle, Dobcross, Denshaw, Greenfield [...] families, illustrating the complexity of the transition between domestic and factory production of textiles. The restored Huddersfield Narrow Canal passes through the parish, and is crossed on a skew arch [...] stone viaduct by the Manchester – Leeds railway. Saddleworth Museum illustrates the history of the textile industry and other aspects of the parish.

Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia and welcomes visitors with a large number of historic textile machines. But this is only a part of the exhibition programme. The aim of the museum is to provide

including locomotives, turbines and damask cloths of linen, and employed thousands of people. The textile production ended in the 1970s, and industrial use of the last buildings by the rapids ceased in the

4-storey, 19-bay structure, was built as a woollen mill, c 1796, but was never used for manufacturing textiles. Exhibits include a 1,425,000 litre pot still, a 5 m X 6 m water wheel and a beam engine in the

for centuries has been one of the most important manufacturing centres in Europe, celebrated for textiles, motor cars, electrical engineer and aircraft, as well as for its model housing, its retailing

best-preserved factory colonies in Denmark, dating from the early 20th century and established by a textile concern that occupied the mill between 1832 and 1956.