tic manufacture of the people of Azerbaijan for more than three thousand years, and Azerbaijani textiles were inscribed by UNESCO on the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. A

limestone building of 1841 that was originally the hay barn of Vaernla manor, displays a range of textile machines, the oldest made by Anton Wieczorek in Bialystok, Poland, in the 1860s. Spinning machines

The textile museum at Busto Arsizio in the province of Vares is located in a three-storey building that was once the spinning department of the cotton company, Cotonificio Cario Ottolini. It dates from

by young manufacturers in the city, including Jean Dollfus (1800-87) of the firm Dollfus-Mieg, textile manufacturers from 1746 and from 1812 owners of the coal mines at Ronchamp. Appalled by overcrowding

Colonia Vidal, often abbreviated to Cal Vidal, is one of the most important of the textile workers’ colonies in Catalonia. It was established on the banks of the Llobregat river in the 1890s by Ignasi

over the world, and some examples can be seen in the Glarner Naturmuseum opened in 2004 in a former textile mill in nearby Verderdorf.

was acquired by the city corporation for use as a museum in 1970. There are extensive displays of textile machinery particularly of machines used in the production of worsted fabrics. Several stationary

are shown in the models and original vessels. Social history is explored via personal possessions, textiles, domestic equipment and artworks. Housed in historic buildings, the Museum was founded in the late

and a manager’s house. The displays present the main industrial sectors of Brussels: metal, wood, textiles, food, car manufacturing and hat making. They look at technology, business, working conditions and

preserved mill for making paper and white and brown cardboard from wood pulp. The use of wood instead of textile rags transformed the paper and card industries in the late nineteenth century. New mills were built

silk, from the collection of the cocoons to winding the silk from them, spinning thread and weaving textiles. Displays and videos tell visitors about the entrepreneurs and the lives of nineteenth-century factory

facility in Serbia to use electricity to operate its machines. The weaving mill grew to be a large textile factory. Some 400 households were lit by electricity in the beginning. The people of Užice then

visitors can trace the process of silk making from the silkworm to spinning yarn and weaving finished textiles. Social history displays highlight the importance of work by women and children.

sound and the smell of a textile factory as well seeing and understanding the operation. There is also a restored steam engine and a line for dyeing. Many of the staff are textile workers who keep the machines [...] the knitwear industry in the area around Albstadt, about 60 kilometres south of Stuttgart. Knitted textiles have continuous yarn while weaving has interlaced yarn. It is used to make ‘jersey’ material, underwear

industrial centre in the nineteenth century, especially for the food industries but also leather, textiles, ceramics and shipbuilding. The museum is in a five-storey former warehouse in the town centre that [...] Elmshorn acquired it in 1988 for an industrial museum. The ground floor shows the history of cotton textiles, communications, the local leather industry and the craft of processing fish skins to make fine-quality

with silver and gold threads. They exported for the Roman Catholic church around the world. These textiles are collectively known by the Latin term 'paraments', which translates as 'prepared for the Lord's

spinning mill. The museum opened on the first floor of the building in 2011 with an exhibition of textile history, including production, working life, fashion and advertising. A special display of photography [...] on the roof). The 'Museumsfabrik' is in the Povel mill, which was built in 1950. This has working textile machines brought to life by former workers.

in Paisley in 1802 and is now a multinational. Visitors can buy cotton thread and Paisley-pattern textiles in the museum shop.

stadium and theatre. The Museum of Textile Machinery is in part of the laboratories of the V. E. Marzotto Industrial Technical Institute, a training college for the textile industries that was started in 1936 [...] training and research purposes. The textile industries represented are not just wool but also cotton, silk and synthetic fibres. The museum also tells the story of the textile industries in Valdagno and their

Geldrop was an important centre for textile manufacture in the nineteenth century, especially wool. The museum occupies the buildings of a woollen factory on the river Kleine Dommel at the site of a medieval [...] Through a large collection of looms and other machines the museum shows how to weave in different textiles and how processes have changed. It demonstrates weaving with a traditional hand loom and a Jacquard [...] Jacquard loom, braiding, label making and circular knitting. Most demonstrators worked in the textile industry. They take commissions and produce items for sale such as cotton bath towels, tea-towels and