company and the Bally family, its history and industrial shoe and ribbon production. In addition to textile and shoe production machines, products such as shoes, ribbons and boxes are on display.

Art and Industry in 1888 by Sir Henry Doulton (1820-97). The museum also has displays of pottery, textiles, glass and metal castings.

associated with the manufacture of textiles over several centuries. Mining prospered in the area in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The textile industry expanded, particularly in the [...] stockings on machines, and of the celebrated hosiery firm of Louis Bahner, founded in 1842. The textile museum is located in a five-storey nineteenth-century mill which was occupied from 1879 by the Weber [...] authority in 1994 and opened as a museum the following year. Its displays feature many aspects of textile manufacturing, particularly hosiery production and weaving on Jacquard looms. The other theme of

town, 19 km. west of Chemnitz and 36 km. east of Zwickau, is one of the historic centres of the textile industry in Saxony, and is particularly important for its role in the development of hosiery technology [...] (1817-73), where in 1860 he employed about 110 workers in 1860, together with about 60 more in a textile finishing plant, and many more who worked in their own homes. The museum, supported by a voluntary [...] process, developed in his garage using scrap materials in 1946-49, transformed many aspects of textile manufacturing throughout the world. It is called the MALIMO process: i.e. MAuersberger LIMbach-Oberfrohna

The textile mill at Niederwiesa, 12 km. east of Chemnitz in the Erzgebirge, dates from soon after 1800. It was owned from 1910 by Martin Tannenhauer, who established a textile business in Chemnitz in 1883 [...] mill became a technical museum from 1994 after production ceased with the rationalisation of the textile industry in the former GDR. The building is now owned by the Gemeindeverwaltung Niederweisa and has

Mountains homeland) illustrates life in the area before the Second World War, displaying traditional textiles (including embroidery), paintings and handicraft products. This museum holds the archives of the

that was once a Carthusian monastery. It includes sections on agriculture, printing, water-power, textiles and fishing. The development of electric power is a particularly important theme. Exhibits include

eastwards from the Pennines towards the sea, is the location of one of England’s most significant textile mill buildings. Gayle Mill, 2 km. south of the town, was built in 1784 by Oswald and Thomas Routh

Horsehair, a fabric made with a weft of combed fibres from the docked tails of horses and a warp of cotton or linen yarn, is very durable and has a unique lustre. It has been made in the Castle Cary d

the east where wages were lower. The Living Textile Museum, established in 1989, is located in a four-storey former factory. Its displays illustrate the textile industry in the area since the early eighteenth [...] rts is part of the Waldviertal Textilstrasse (textile road) which also includes museums at Veitra and Waidhofen and some of the remaining working textile factories. [...] eighteenth century a landowner, Johann Christoph Ferdinand Grav von Mollentheim (1682-1742), encouraged textile manufacturing in the area, particularly the making of ribbons, tapes and laces, and brought in skilled

The Goldberger family established a textile business in Budapest in 1784, which was continued by four generations into the twentieth century. It was primarily concerned with printing fabrics, using indigo [...] by a museum, which opened to the public in 1999. Displays show the technology of various means of textile printing and the history of the Goldberger family and the company they established. The ground floor [...] displays. The museum organises walks around the city visiting sites connected with the Goldbergers and textile printing.

of Italian entrepreneurial philanthropy. A Swiss entrepreneur, Isaac Leumann (1807-87) set up a textile business at Voghera near Pavia in Lombardy, where his son, Napoleon Leumann (1841-1930), married

Casentino region not far from Florence witnessed the hustle and bustle of one of the most important textile factories in Italy. This success was not a coincidence since the Casentino people were experts on [...] The museum reveals why - by embarking on an exciting journey through the centuries of regional textile manufacture. To be part of it visitors are repeatedly encouraged to use their hands. In doing so [...] meant for the process of wool manufacture is illustrated by the museum's comprehensive collection of textile machinery. Audio samples create the appropriate background noise, and interviews with former factory

tools ‘from sickles to combined harvesters’ and numerous beehives. There are sections on rural textile manufactures, on the food industry and the history of the Polish countryside, on rural transport

into aero engines in the 1930s, and continued to produce trucks, motor buses, trolley busses and textile machines. It was less prosperous after the Second World War. The last commercial vehicle left the

Riggisberg is a small town 25 km south of Bern, where, in 1961, the Zurich textile manufacturer Werner Abegg (1903-1984) founded the Abegg-Stiftung (the Abegg Foundation), which is an institute of Art [...] Art History with a particular remit to research and conserve early textiles. The Abegg family factories were mostly in northern Italy. Werner Abegg managed them from 1924, and while resident in Turin in the [...] before moving to New York, but subsequently returned to settle in Riggisberg. The foundation opened a textile museum in 1967. The collection ranges from the fourth century BC to circa 1800 and includes fabrics

perhaps the first textile mill to be built in the style of a country mansion. It remained in use for textile manufacturing into the 1990s, and was subsequently adopted as a museum of textiles, a conference

Spinning Company built a five-storey, 40-bay mill, designed by Stott & Son of Oldham, the most eminent textile mill architects of the time. It was 92 m long and 46 m wide, and was extended in 1899. It accommodated

planned and otherwise. The museum also includes sections on the decorative arts (chiefly costume and textiles), geology and natural history. In the centre of the museum is a Spitfire fighter aircraft, which

The textile ecomuseum at Husseren-Wesserling in the department Haut-Rhin, 35 km. from Mulhouse and 65 km. from Colmar opened in 1996. The town was the location of a royal textile enterprise, comparable [...] production of textiles, with a particular emphasis on printing. The workings of machines are explained by costumed guides. Other parts of the factory complex are occupied by a variety of textile craft workshops