retains the machines that transformed raw wool into yarn, but also demonstrates a wide variety of textile techniques, including the making of the pillows, carpets, costume bags and knitwear that are sold

dance groups and male-voice choirs were founded. From the factory, a city had emerged. In 1993 textile production had to be discontinued. Today about 100 studios offer the artists the necessary space

with the castle's history, but still appropriate is the passementerie workshop, where decorative textiles of no real use are produced, such as ribbons, trimmings, fringes, cords and lace. Until the end

The museum of Oederan, a small village 20 km East of Chemnitz, presents the textile history of the Ore Mountains. Under the guidance of museum staff and on hand and power looms, visitors can learn various [...] weaving machines of the 20th century, visitors can get an exciting overview of several centuries of textile history. Looms and other devices from the collection of the former Simon Mill in Oederan, mechanical

are still around 40 mostly small companies operating in the Vogtland. The history of the Vogtland textile industry, and Plauen lace in particular, has been presented in the 'Factory of Threads' since the [...] manufactory building, the 'Weisbachschen Haus', visitors can experience the many facets of the Vogtland textile industry with all its highlights, but also its dark sides. In addition to exhibits from the museum's

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

between 1938 and 1945. The museum is located at beautiful site of Jizera mountains landscape in former textile factory “Baumwollspinerei Karl Bienert und Söhne”, which is an exceptionally well-preserved factory [...] archaeology which is collected from air crashes in the mountains around the factory; 3rd Exhibition of textile production with some machines in working condition and exhibition of old sewing machines.

The region experienced an incredible boom in the textile industry in the 19th century thanks to readily available hydroelectric power. Over time, the textile industry developed into the important Swiss e

Ghent, that has long connections with textile manufacturing. The cottage-based industry declined from mid-nineteenth century as workers migrated to nearby French textile centres, such as Lille and Tourcoing [...] Tourcoing, but gained renewed prosperity from the 1870s. Like textile areas in other parts of Europe it suffered severe decline in the 1960s. The community’s history is portrayed in two buildings in the village

island of Hadseløya, 236 km west of Narvik. Christian Fredriksen (1865-1929), who made a fortune from textile manufacturing, soap and margarine making and steamships, established the community around his enterprises

The museum fosters links between the city’s textile industries and practising artists and it holds collections of textile patterns and samples made before TextilTechnikum opened. [...] mid-twentieth century but some textile companies still have their administrative quarters and research facilities in the city even if production has moved elsewhere. The textile museum in the former Monforts [...] Mönchengladbach was the principal textile-manufacturing centre in north-west Germany in the nineteenth century. Cotton spinning was established in the city in 1807 when English products could not be imported

threat. The Society’s object was to collect examples of characteristic steam engines from the many textile mills in Lancashire and Yorkshire that were then being closed. The Society was able to hold its

and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their sources of power, a working water wheel and

into the families of framework knitters is encouraged in a research library. A Textile Emporium sells locally-made textile products and the Chapel Gallery displays works by local artists.

Wirksworth, principal town of the Derbyshire lead-mining district, and was also a textile centre, noted for the Haarlem Mill of 1780, perhaps the first cotton spinning factory in which steam power was [...] through the Derwent Valley, which opened in 1867. Its principal traffics were limestone, milk and textiles. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1947-49, but the branch was used for testing diesel railcars

production of thread ceased entirely in 1993. The Paisley People’s Archive interprets the history of textiles in many ways, with videos, trail guides, an oral history archives, and weekly guided tours of the

well tank engine by Krauss of Munich. The original terminus was at Forssa, the site of some of the textile mills established by John Finlayson (1771-1852). Passenger services on this section of the railway [...] takes passengers between Forssa and the railway during steam festivals. Standard gauge wagons with textiles travelling to and from Tampere were once carried on specially-designed narrow gauge wagons on the

principal industrial city in Finland which prospered in the nineteenth century with the growth of the textile industry. Amuri is a working class district in the city which in 1900 had a population of about 5000

collection. The Museum holds a photographic archive, and has an extensive library devoted to the textile industry and particularly to the making of lace and embroidery. Broader aspects of local history

historical wool mill and turn it into a cultural pole. Today the “Factory of the Wheel” houses a textile and local archive, a library and his factory halls are exhibition spaces. The building is an important