leader in the felt sector. A major manufacturer of mattresses, companies specialized in paper and textile labels, as well as the only pencil factory in Portugal, are further highlights of the varied tour

The Villa Cavrois is the stylish Modernist house of the industrialist Paul Cavrois, owner of five textile factories at Roubaix, which was once known as the ‘city of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised

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

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

the museum. In the basement, where the textile tools are located, an entire production line is switched on, illustrating the century-old history of the Saxon textile industry by automatically spinning, knitting

preserved mill for making paper and white and brown cardboard from wood pulp. The use of wood instead of textile rags transformed the paper and card industries in the late nineteenth century. New mills were built

estuary of the River Dee. For many centuries the stream powered industrial concerns concerned with textiles, iron-making, paper-making and the processing of non-ferrous metals. In the late 18th century the

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

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.

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

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

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

like the overhead railway. Thus passengers are able to glide over a crowded city landscape of old textile mills, residential areas and squares most of which sprang up in the early industrial era. A trip

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

industrial economy of Norwich was built on the diverse mixture of textiles, shoe manufacture, food production and pharmaceuticals. Textiles were an important medieval industry in East Anglia employing thousands [...] the most important regional centre of the textile industry, Norwich was badly hit by the expansion of powered looms in the north and west of England. Some textile mills were constructed in Norwich to compete [...] has a pedigree dating to the eighteenth century. Other sites to visit in Norwich include former textile factories, brush works and vinegar works together with important civil engineering structures such