Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance. Founded in 1784 by a young textile merchant Samuel Greg, Quarry Bank Mill was one of the first generation of waterpowered cotton spinning [...] producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards) of cloth each year. Visitors can see, hear and smell 19th Century textile machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry

The textile machinery collection is an extremely important one. The museum began collecting textile machines in the 19th century and amongst the items at the heart of this collection is the only surviving [...] the spinning jenny - which are also represented in the collections. The Bolton connection with the textile industry has been developed in more recent years with the acquisition of a range of early 20th century

re-live the days when steam ran the world! Whether you´re interested in local or social history, textiles and textile machinery or just looking for an afternoon out with a difference, the sights, sounds and smells [...] neighbouring Primrose Mill). We still weave cloth which we use to make a range of products called Simply Textiles.

stunning Rossendale Valley are two of Lancashire´s original textile mills: Higher Mill and Whitaker’s Mill which, together, are Helmshore Mills Textile Museum. We are upgrading the Museum buildings, displays [...] powering the stocks as they thump the wet woollen cloth. Discover famous inventors and international textile industry treasures including an Arkwright Water Frame from the 1780’s. A changing programme of e

now houses exhibitions exploring the properties of silk, design education, Macclesfield´s diverse textile industries, workers´ lives and historic machinery. The Silk Museum follows the story of silk from [...] industry. The story of silk comes to an end as we consider how silk is used in fashion.Costume, textiles and accessories At the neighbouring building, the Paradise Mill, knowledgeable guides demonstrate

modern name for an area astride the Leeds and Liverpool Canal that was once at the heart of Burnley´s textile industry. The name was first used in the 1970s, as interest developed in preserving Burnley´s industrial

Manchester’, now a city with 67,000 inhabitants, became important for the manufacture of woollen textiles in the nineteenth century, but had long traditions of craft manufactures. Both aspects of its industrial [...] is to show the way of life of the Gabrovo region between 1750 and 1900. Buildings that relate to textile manufactures include a fulling mill, a ribbon weaving shop, a dyehouse and a shop for spinning and

mechanical looms – it was that kind of noise that used to shape the everyday life of the Basque textile mill La Encartada near Bilbao for 100 years. Luckily, almost the entire equipment, predominantly

has been an important textile centre since the sixteenth century, and in the nineteenth century specialised in the production of cotton, but one of the principal themes of its textile museum, opened in 1992 [...] as well as up-to-date interactive displays. Boras continues to be an important textile centre. About half of the textiles now made in Sweden, most of them highly specialised, are produced in the vicinity

school for his workpeople, and a 700 m trail starting at the museum guides visitors through the textile community.

are displays illustrating the history of clocks, toys, silverware and pottery, and the theme of textile production can be followed throughout the museum. The Old Town is one of the most popular museums

to the collection of historic textile equipment in the Royal Veiga Factory founded by José Mendes Veiga in 1784, to an open-air structure with metal bars on which textiles, fastened and stretched with nails [...] 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. There are plenty of them [...] mid-20th century. Those who want to delve deeper into the subject take part in one of the various textile workshops for visitors of all ages and experience what it feels like to card, spin and weave wool

flax from circa 1935, and textile activities subsequently expanded. Cotton and jute were woven on the site from 1935, and in 1955 a new building was constructed for weaving. Textile manufacturing ceased in

centre of textile production, as it still is. The museum was established in 1984 in a textile school built in the grounds of Jeliazkov’s factory in 1906. Its displays show the development of textile technology [...] interactive weaving exhibits. The museum includes a demonstration centre for textile crafts. It is highly regarded by the modern textile industry and is frequently visited by delegates to conferences. [...] The first textile mill in the Balkan peninsula was built in 1834 at Sliven by Dobri Jeliazkov (or Zhelyazkovac), who, with many other citizens of the town, had fled to Russia during the war between Russia

first powered factory of its kind in England and an important influence on the early development of textile factories. It was described by many travel writers, including Daniel Defoe, who in the 1720s called [...] s are arranged by the materials from which the objects were made. Galleries act as a gateway to textile history in the World Heritage site and explain the silk industry and how the original mill machines

Guben, in the eastern part of Brandenburg, on the frontier with Poland, has been involved with textile manufactures since the middle ages. In the nineteenth century it became one of Europe’s principal

the mid-nineteenth century. The museum, established in 1989, is located in a nineteenth-century textile warehouse, tells the story of the cotton industry in the valley, with particular emphasis on the [...] examples from England, France, Spain and the United States. The museum also organises visits to local textile enterprises that are still operating.

There are displays relating to archaeology, material culture and folk art as well as to traditional textile manufactures.

portray many aspects of the history of the textile industry, and perhaps show more clearly than in any other European city the evolution of factory-based textile production from manufacturing workshops on [...] which is the headquarters of the municipal museum service that manages the two textile sites. The domestic stages of textile production have been illustrated since 1992 in the Weaver’s House, a 2-storey [...] century domestic weaver’s workshop. The Museum of Technology and the Textile Industry has been located since 1979 in a wool textile factory, whose nucleus was a workshop established by Karol Traugott Buttner

Industry, established by Lyon’s Chamber of Commerce in 1864, which was visited by some 19th-century textile workers from other European countries who sought experience in France. It has been housed since 1946