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

has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź. On the ground floor, devices and machines rattle [...] past. Last but not least, the second storey is all about fashion and textiles - historical fabrics as well as contemporary textile art. An interactive multimedia presentation takes visitors to the Łódź [...] backdrop of a 19th century group of buildings: Ludwik Geyer's "White Factory", one of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with 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

industrial economy of Norwich was built on the diverse mixture of textiles, shoe manufacture, food production and pharmaceuticals. Textiles were an important medieval industry in East Anglia employing thousands [...] the most important regional centre of the textile industry, Norwich was badly hit by the expansion of powered looms in the north and west of England. Some textile mills were constructed in Norwich to compete [...] has a pedigree dating to the eighteenth century. Other sites to visit in Norwich include former textile factories, brush works and vinegar works together with important civil engineering structures such

now houses exhibitions exploring the properties of silk, design education, Macclesfield´s diverse textile industries, workers´ lives and historic machinery. The Silk Museum follows the story of silk from [...] industry. The story of silk comes to an end as we consider how silk is used in fashion.Costume, textiles and accessories At the neighbouring building, the Paradise Mill, knowledgeable guides demonstrate

The city of Plauen in Saxony became a centre for textile production from the late 19th century, specialising in lace embroidery. The museum occupies the villa and courtyard workshops of Max Vollstädt, [...] and demonstrate them for visitors. Tools, design drawings, pattern books and examples of finished textiles have been added to the collection. Displays explain the development of ‘Plauen lace’, a form of

The Mumat museum of textile machinery 20km north of Prato in Tuscany occupies a factory for recycling used woollen cloth, built in 1893 by Amerigo Meucci. Wool recycling techniques were invented in England [...] equipment. Recycling continues in the region and the museum works with local companies and the Textile Museum of Prato.

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

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

for making high-quality silk fabrics since the 18th century. The museum includes several working textile machines for silk weaving from the 19th and 20th centuries. It also shows historical photographs [...] weavers, which is now the last that is active in France. A final audiovisual gives a flavour of the textile heritage that is still alive in the area today. The shop sells locally made products.

dedicates a whole storey to textile manufacture because cotton was the driving force behind the industrial development of the city. Not for nothing is the museum located in an old textile factory that offers the

the museum. In the basement, where the textile tools are located, an entire production line is switched on, illustrating the century-old history of the Saxon textile industry by automatically spinning, knitting

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

Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance. Founded in 1784 by a young textile merchant Samuel Greg, Quarry Bank Mill was one of the first generation of waterpowered cotton spinning [...] producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards) of cloth each year. Visitors can see, hear and smell 19th Century textile machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry

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

estuary of the River Dee. For many centuries the stream powered industrial concerns concerned with textiles, iron-making, paper-making and the processing of non-ferrous metals. In the late 18th century the

for centuries has been one of the most important manufacturing centres in Europe, celebrated for textiles, motor cars, electrical engineer and aircraft, as well as for its model housing, its retailing

The Villa Cavrois is the stylish Modernist house of the industrialist Paul Cavrois, owner of five textile factories at Roubaix, which was once known as the ‘city of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised

Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia and welcomes visitors with a large number of historic textile machines. But this is only a part of the exhibition programme. The aim of the museum is to provide

town by SNIA Viscosa from 1937. The factory produced cellulose fibres to manufacture the artificial textile rayon. The vegetable raw material was the reed Arundo donax which was grown on land reclaimed by