was in decline but the textile mill employed 150 people and pork worth £20,000 per annum was exported from the harbour. The 5-bay, 3-storey brewer7 still stands, as does the textile mill which has been adapted

the late eighteenth century by Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-92) and others of factories in which textile yarns could be spun by machinery had repercussions in the remotest parts of the British Isles, as [...] considered in need of social discipline. Sir John Sinclair ((1754-1835), a Scots landowner, through that textile manufacturing would give Highlanders the ‘opportunity of tasting the sweets and advantages of labour’

Several of the buildings in the 68-hectare folk museum illustrate vividly the history of traditional textile manufacturing in Ireland. They include a water-powered scotching mill from Gorticashel, Upper, Co

regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles, historic machinery [...] d in 1863. Today it is a symbol of Prato´s centuries-old textile tradition which has marked the Tuscan town up to the present day. The textile activity ceased trading in 1994. The work of the factory [...] rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill. The new labrary Biblioteca Lazzerini (the

paper mill and a saw mill. A museum in the factory was opened in 1990. It illustrates all aspects of textile manufacture, not just preparation, spinning and weaving but production of carpets and fabrics for [...] museum is the base for the Waldviertel Textilstrasse, a route that links together all the historical textile sites and collections in Lower Austria.

displayed at Autoworld in Brussels. The remainder, about 750, are held in the former Ernaelsteen textile factory at Leuze-en-Hainaut which the Fondation Mahy acquired from the municipality in 1997. Part

are exhibited in the museum. Other displays reflect the trades and crafts of city and its region, textiles, carpets, embroidery, the making of jewellery and mining, and domestic displays illustrate the material

The village of Brunshaab south of Viborg takes its name from Bertil Bruun, who from 1809 moved his textile business from Fredericia to the site of an old grain and fulling mill. His factory was completed

displays illustrating the many industries of Upper Austria, including salt making, coal mining, textiles, and the manufacture of weapons, tobacco, sugar, glass, ceramics and iron artefacts. The exhibition

internationally for its textiles when ancient privileges relating to manufacturing were abolished during the French Revolution in 1791. At the same time new technologies for textile production were introduced [...] century later. The textile industry specialised in furnishing fabrics and continued to prosper, exporting to most parts of the world, until decline came from the 1960s. The textile museum is centred on [...] The town of Roubaix in the French part of Flanders was already a centre of textile production in 1469 when it was granted the privilege of weaving coarse woollen fabrics. The right to weave fine yarns

watermills, potteries and a horse mill that once ground bark for a tannery. Traditional crafts such as textiles, particularly embroidery and carpets, ceramics and the working of glass, iron and wood are demonstrated

Mountains, and one of the most valuable collections is of the richly decorated furniture, stoves and textiles made by the Hutsul people, also from the Carpathians. The museum is well-known for its season folklore

Norway. For visitors the machines are still put into operation, since the former textile works nowadays host the Textile Industry Museum. The multi-part building with its workshops bathed in light is located

used to present a virtual factory in a small space – a factory that was once one of the largest textile works in Europe. Its founder, a Jewish entrepreneur by the name of Israel Poznanski, set up an industrial

concern amongst local people that textile traditions should not be lost. The building was purchased by the local authority and now houses a range of activities related to textiles, including a museum of weaving [...] products. The centre maintains links with similar textile projects across Europe, and with the textile departments of several universities. A second building was taken over in 2006, and attractions now include [...] around Haslach near Austria’s borders with Bavaria and the Czech Republic has been renowned for its textiles for many centuries. One of the most prominent companies was Vonwiller, established in 1819, which

first spinning mill was opened in 1821 and the steam-powered factory began operation in 1844. The textile industry was stimulated by the opening of the railway from Sorau (now Zary in Poland) to Cottbus

offices were used by the company established by Momme Peterson (1771-1835) which was involved in textiles, timber and paper. In 1882 Peterson’s grandson Theodore Peterson (1839-88) established the Moss

The former textile mill on the edge of the village of Esch-sur-Sûre in northern Luxembourg is both a museum of the woollen cloth industry in the vicinity and a visitor centre for the Upper Sûre Nature

established in 1981 in a five-storey, wooden-framed textile mill built in 1824-26 by the brothers Fiedler. The main emphasis of the museum is on textiles and a range of machinery is displayed, including knitting

particularly told by historical sites in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains). In the early 19th century textile processing became the driver of progress, thus entailing the rise of metal working industries. This [...] selection of 51 sites, including exciting museums as well as active plants. Leading sectors are mining, textile industry, vehicles and transport, food and beverage, and the printing industry. Outstanding architecture