trade waste for fuel as this contained a high percentage of combustible materials such as coal, textiles, paper and bones as well as general waste. The importance of the building has been recognised by

century to the present day. MTVS - Musée du textile et de la vie sociale ( Museum of Textiles and Social Life) Fourmies was the principal centre of the woollen textile industry in France in the second half of [...] de l'Avesnois is a 'Musée de France' located in the heart of two former industrial sites in the textile and glass industries, emblematic of the Avesnois-Thiérache region: the former Prouvost-Masurel spinning

the Rhineland Industrial Museum. Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, an extremely wealthy merchant and textile magnate from Wuppertal at the end of the 18th century, learnt how to profit from saving time at a

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

copper, gunpowder, and also cloth. The Brede Klædefabrik was set up in 1832 and was the leading textile factory in Denmark until it ceased operations in 1956. The unique industrial monument provides visitors [...] settlement, including the factory buildings, workers dwellings and a director’s mansion. In 2018, the Textile Museum, previously run by the National Museum, closed. However, visitors can still see the factory

community where textiles were manufactured in a mill completed in 1878, but it is important chiefly as a model community, designed by Silvio Benigno Crespi n (1868-1944), who had studied the textile industry

The Sedó Colony was the first and largest company town in the textile industry of Catalunya. It was begun in 1846 by Miquel Puig i Catasús and expanded under Antoni Sedó i Pàmies, whose name it takes. [...] but closed in 1980. It was integrated from spinning the cotton yarn to finishing and dyeing the textile. The museum of the colony is in part of the factory. Visitors go inside an enormous turbine of 1899 [...] spinning and weaving sheds and maintenance workshops. Displays show the history of the factory, textile machinery and products and a film and model of the huge complex. Tours take visitors to see the waterfall

which Italians made many important innovations. The museum shares the premises of the Setificio, the textile school, and includes sections, all with original equipment or machines, relating to silkworms, the

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

border with Germany. Its industrial history began in the mid-19th century with the manufacture of textiles and the processing of cotton. This was followed by the metal, mechanical and electrical industries

including industrialisation, brewing, tourism, timber and forestry, glass production, the paper and textile industries and much more. The collections show the region's belated revival after the Second World

The Colonia Guell is a workers’ settlement in the Garden City style built by the Catalan textile entrepreneur Eusebi Güell (1846-1918) around his principal factory that he re-located to Santa Coloma de

to the collection of historic textile equipment in the Royal Veiga Factory founded by José Mendes Veiga in 1784, to an open-air structure with metal bars on which textiles, fastened and stretched with nails [...] weaving the future“: in line with its motto, the three neighbouring locations of the Museum of Woollen Textiles in Covilhã explore the traces of local wool processing over the centuries. There are plenty of them [...] mid-20th century. Those who want to delve deeper into the subject take part in one of the various textile workshops for visitors of all ages and experience what it feels like to card, spin and weave wool

The Marfà knitted textile factory at Mataró on the coast east of Barcelona was built in 1880-1 by Gaietà Marfà i Baladia, who came from a local family of hosiers. It integrated all the processes from spinning [...] the history of the industry since the eighteenth century. The second floor shows the museum’s rich textile and clothing collections.

factory, built in 1841. It is near the eastern end of the Passeig del Ter on the riverside. Many textile factories used waterpower here from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum shows the process of cleaning

have housed the LIUC University. For almost 150 years, Cantoni was a major player in the Italian textile industry. The factory underwent continuous expansion and adaptation, gradually integrating other

e: An extraordinary collection of machines exhibited in zones shows the evolution of the narrow textile industry from silk to the modern ribbons of the 21st century and presents the special characters

centre of textile production, as it still is. The museum was established in 1984 in a textile school built in the grounds of Jeliazkov’s factory in 1906. Its displays show the development of textile technology [...] interactive weaving exhibits. The museum includes a demonstration centre for textile crafts. It is highly regarded by the modern textile industry and is frequently visited by delegates to conferences. [...] The first textile mill in the Balkan peninsula was built in 1834 at Sliven by Dobri Jeliazkov (or Zhelyazkovac), who, with many other citizens of the town, had fled to Russia during the war between Russia

and use of iron and steel. The use of iron beams and columns were an important progress for the textile industry because their buildings were always under thread of fire. The building was erected in 1796-97

, modern high-tech: tim, the young Augsburg Textile and Industrial Museum, which opened in January 2010, connects the rapid development of the local textile industry with an exciting trip into the history [...] Augsburg Worsted Spinning Mill (Augsburger Kammgarnspinnerei - AKS). They let employees talk and show textile machinery in various stages of development and present catwalk shows with fashions from Biedermeier [...] Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK). Using an interactive screen, visitors can become designers by projecting textile samples from the 19th and 20th centuries on to more than four meters high, rotating female figures