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.

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

Mineral potash is an important material for use as a fertilizer and in the chemical, textile and glass industries. Deposits of potash were discovered in the Alsace region at Wittelsheim in 1904. Development

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

industrialisation of Hyvinkää. Starting small, the wool spinning mill became one of Finland's notable textile factories, shaping Hyvinkää's growth and urban development for nearly a century. Its success drew

Pyrenees. It is immaculately preserved. It was built between 1912 and 1918 to supply electricity to textile factories near Barcelona. It now supplies the national grid and is operated by ACCIONA. Its original

This is a museum about woollen manufacture by both handlooms and machines in the towns of Mira de Aire and Minde in the 20th century. It is a small carpet factory that opened in 1933 called Tapetes Do

from prehistory to the present, covering not just the medieval past and the leather industries but textile manufacturing, international trade, community and society. The displays utilise text, artefacts,

papermaking and printing in Supraśl dates back to the 17th century. It later became a centre of textile manufacture. The pioneers of printing with movable type in the region were Ivan Fyodorov and Pyotr

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

by traditional methods and guide visitors through the processes. Visitors follow the journey from textile or wood fibres to finished paper. A waterwheel is connected to ‘Hollander beaters’ for preparing

and the 36-m chimney survive. The exhibition History Threads presents the history of the city's textile industry. Spinning and weaving machines are displayed alongside social material that ensures a focus

and large windows. Over half the working population of Wuppertal at that time were employed in the textile and clothing industries, of which ribbon weaving and braiding was an important part. The factory

town of Mouzon in north-east France. A pioneering factory for the industrial production of felt textiles was opened at Mouzon by Alfred Sommer, a dyer, in 1880. He expanded it in 1887 by taking over a

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.

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

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

industrialists. They chose the area for their new cotton-spinning factory because of the existing textile industry and good water-power potential from the River Orco. It had a basement for the drive-shafts

Blue dyes, especially ones made from the indigo plant, have been used to colour textiles for thousands of years. In Hungary and other parts of eastern Europe dyeing and printing in blue-and-white patterns [...] became part of folk costumes. UNESCO recognises the tradition as Intangible Cultural Heritage. The textiles were produced in small workshops from the seventeenth century, then in larger workshops. The Kékfestő [...] museum in 1962. The cellars include the washing room and the dyeing room with large vats into which textiles were lowered on metal frames. Upstairs are a room where patterns were printed with wooden blocks