Coldharbour Mill, 12 km east of Tiverton, is one of the outstanding monuments of the textile industry of the West of England. The elegant mill in the classical style was built in 1799 by the Quaker en

The Remfabrik in Goteborg is one of Europe’s most perfectly-preserved time capsules of textile history. The 3-storey factory made heavy canvas of the kind used in conveyor belts and in belts transmitting

, modern high-tech: tim, the young Augsburg Textile and Industrial Museum, which opened in January 2010, connects the rapid development of the local textile industry with an exciting trip into the history [...] Augsburg Worsted Spinning Mill (Augsburger Kammgarnspinnerei - AKS). They let employees talk and show textile machinery in various stages of development and present catwalk shows with fashions from Biedermeier [...] Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK). Using an interactive screen, visitors can become designers by projecting textile samples from the 19th and 20th centuries on to more than four meters high, rotating female figures

The cotton mills at Narva are part of an integrated textile community consisting of a monumental factory, workers’ housing, schools and institutes, comparable to Saltaire in England, built in the mid-

centuries one of the principal sources of in France, and that coal was the basis of the city’s notable textile and engineering industries. The last mine ceased production in 1984, but visitors can experience

used at all stages of textile manufacture, and many of the machines on display are demonstrated. The museum holds a substantial archive of documents and photographs relating to textile manufactures in the [...] The textile manufacturing community at Cholet a small town in Maine et Loire, 66 km south-east of Nantes, was established in the seventeenth century by Edouard Colbert, brother of Louis XIV’s minister [...] minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who arranged for the settlement in the area of a group of weavers. Textile manufacturing flourished until the second half of the twentieth century, and the town became celebrated

art. It has curious origins. The Swiss brothers Hans (1904-89) and Fritz (1906-92) Schlumpf ran a textile concern in Mulhouse that prospered in the decades after the Second World War. They began to collect

and use of iron and steel. The use of iron beams and columns were an important progress for the textile industry because their buildings were always under thread of fire. The building was erected in 1796-97

side of Bradford, with a floor space of 11 ha and a chimney 78 m tall, is one of the most imposing textile factories in Europe. It was designed in the Italianate style by the Bradford architects Andrews & [...] & Pepper for Samuel Cunliffe Lister (1815-1906), a powerful figure in the Yorkshire textile industry, inventory of the nip comb for straightening wool fibres before spinning, and of system for utilising

Schio, 26 km north-west of Vicenza, became one of the most important textile centres in Italy in the second half of the 19th century, although until the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 it belonged to the Habsburg [...] histories, and a ‘laboratory’ that provides an introduction to Schio, and facilities for research. Textiles were being manufactured in the area in the 18th century when wool and yarn were distributed to domestic [...] of Lanificio Rossi, began a company producing spools, shuttles and cardboard and wooden tubes for textile manufacturers. In 1890 he moved his factory from the centre of Schio to the neighbouring Tretto hills

The Colonia Guell is a workers’ settlement in the Garden City style built by the Catalan textile entrepreneur Eusebi Güell (1846-1918) around his principal factory that he re-located to Santa Coloma de

company was liquidated in 1876 and the mill closed with the loss of some 1,141 jobs. Some small-scale textile production was revived until 1904, and a creamery was located in the building until 1914. In 1932

some parts of Finland weaving was an important summer time occupation before the development of textile factories. There are occasional demonstrations of log floating, and other forest occupations. The

available for driving textile machinery. From 1849 the clothworkers used all the power available on the site, and subsequently supplemented the water-power with a steam engine. All textile manufacturing processes [...] Textile manufacturing in the city of Bramsche, 22 km north-east of Osnabruck, flourished for 400 years, chiefly due to the water-power available at mills on the River Hase that were owned by the bishops [...] 1997 with machines of the early 20th century brought in from elsewhere. Displays tell the story of textile manufacturing from earliest times, and some rare early 19th century wooden machines used in domestic

The town of Crimmitschau lies on the River Pleisse about 17 km north-west of Zwickau. Domestic textile manufacturing flourished in the region in the early 19th century, but from the 1850s production was [...] by 1900 the town was regarded as the ‘stadt der 100 Schomstein’ (the town of 100 chimneys). The textile museum, which is part of the Sächsisches Industriemuseum (The Saxony museum of industry), is located [...] monument in 1990, and in 1993 an association was established with the aim of developing it as a textile museum. Restoration of the building began in 1996 and the project was completed in 2003. O n their

with social and economic history. Amongst its 16 principal themes are paper-making and printing, textiles and particularly the cotton industry in south-west Germany, engineering including the construction

is part of the museum complexand which provides an accessible space for temporary exhibitions and textile art and a lively cultural forum.

copper, gunpowder, and also cloth. The Brede Klædefabrik was set up in 1832 and was the leading textile factory in Denmark until it ceased operations in 1956. The unique industrial monument provides visitors [...] settlement, including the factory buildings, workers dwellings and a director’s mansion. In 2018, the Textile Museum, previously run by the National Museum, closed. However, visitors can still see the factory

e: An extraordinary collection of machines exhibited in zones shows the evolution of the narrow textile industry from silk to the modern ribbons of the 21st century and presents the special characters

great parts of southern Norway until 1984. In 1986 the idea of reopening the mill as a „working textile museum" were launched. Government funds made it possible to purchase a majority of the shares, restore