large weaving machines. The equipment is demonstrated and explained by the guides. Visitors can buy textile products in the shop.

final garments. Hundreds of original artefacts have been brought together in four exhibition halls – textile machinery, office equipment, wool samples, photographs, documents, posters and oral history. As a

The town of Forssa was born from textile industry. The Swedish Axel Wahren (1814-1885) founded the Forssa cotton spinning mill on the edge of the Kuhala rapids in 1847. It was soon followed by a weaving [...] department started at the factory in 1951. From 1934, the Forssa mills were part of Finland's largest textile factory, Finlayson. Finlayson fabrics were designed and printed in Forssa. During the 1950s and 1990s [...] Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little gallery, focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in

steamrollers, a double-decker bus and an electric truck. There is also a Blériot monoplane from 1909, textile weaving machinery and displays of armoury, agricultural equipment and craftsmen’s tools. Many mechanical

bakery, a cheesemaker, a clog-maker and a shoemaker. The collections feature several steam engines, textile machines, sawmill equipment and a variety of vehicles including early motorbikes and the first car

promotion and conservation of the heritage of the Normandy town of Elbeuf. It occupies the large textile factory of Blin & Blin, built in 1872. The buildings were saved by the local authority after the [...] all kinds of heritage, including machines, archaeological objects, stuffed animals, paintings and textiles. The River Seine is a theme linking three main topics: the natural sciences, archaeology and industry

The textile industry began to grow in the Vosges region of north-eastern France in the early nineteenth century, attracted by water for power. By the 1840s, numerous spinning and weaving factories were [...] Ventron. The museum is housed in a four-storey weaving mill built in 1855 that is typical of the textile factories from the period. Initially, a stream provided water power, but after 1861 a 30-horse power

Stott Park Bobbin Mill was built in 1835 to make bobbins on which to wind textile yarn. Around a hundred bobbin mills operated in the Lake District between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century

including a jacquard and a huge belt-loom of 1920. Numerous samples of products show the uses of the textiles not just in decorative ribbons but in window blinds, jewellery, belts, dog leads, seat belts and

the present day. It has a particular focus on the textile industry in Liberec since the Middle Ages and includes several examples of historical textile machinery. A small exhibition is dedicated to the

operated, and displays an extensive documentary and iconographic collection on areas such as chemistry, textiles, metalworking, power generation, safety and industrial hygiene, and social services. The museum

manufacturing textile factory Hedva Český Brokát, an exhibition on the history of silk, tie and brocade production in the region has been set up as a branch of the Rýmařov City Museum. The textile factory dates

authentic grasp of an industrial labourer’s working day in the past. The Sulzer steam engine and many textile and shoe production machines come to life in the exhibition. Tools tell of the importance of cra

also the significance of raising capital via shares at that time for railroad construction or the textile industry. The historical securities are arranged along a timeline of significant technical inventions

Labastide-Rouairoux is one of the country towns historically important for woollen textiles in Occitannia in southern France. The textile museum of the département is in a nineteenth-century woollen factory. Visitors [...] show the marketing and final use of textiles and the society associated with the industry. The displays consider the latest developments and the future of textiles and include the science of quality control

in French). Troyes became a leading centre of knitted textiles in the eighteenth century. Knitting with a continuous thread makes flexible textiles that can fit the shapes of the body. They are used mainly [...] city in 1932. The Hosiery Museum opened in 1948. It traces the industrial and social history of textiles in the region. The collections include knitting machines dating from the wooden equipment of the [...] the machines of engineering companies based in Troyes. There are also many examples of conserved textile objects, photographs and films, and a reconstructed hosiery workshop.

Frankenberg vehicle museum, which was open from 1996 to 2019. Original exhibits include objects from the textile industry and carpet weaving, a printing press from 1845 that produced a pioneering daily newspaper

close to the town hall, is the textile museum of the region of Upper Franconia. It was planned as a local history museum in the 1920s but since 1992 it has focused on textiles. In around 1900, the region [...] scarves in Afghanistan, saris in India, ponchos in South America ... It holds an important archive of textile sample books. The museum also examines the working lives of the weavers and the role of guilds. After

features of the museum’s buildings allow visitors to examine the history of brewing, cloth weaving and textile printing and to try some techniques for themselves. Other displays explore flour milling and the

of the nineteenth century Żyrardów Linen Works was the most productive factory in Europe for flax textiles. At its peak it employed up to 9,000 people making linen and cotton. After the Second World War [...] historical equipment and displays represent the process of making linen from raw flax to finished textiles and even clothing. Most of the machinery dates from the late twentieth century, with some earlier