advertising prints, toy theatre sheets, product labels and wallpaper. Today the workshop still uses hand-operated presses to produce original images. Historical equipment for stencilling, printing and paper-cutting

Saut-du-Tarn Steel Works at Saint-Juéry was founded in 1824. It specialized in manufacturing steel hand-tools such as files, scythes and sickles, and later agricultural machinery and other equipment with the

life and operation of a coal mine. Mannequins show particular situations, such as coal-cutting by hand in narrow seams and making repairs after roof falls. The artefacts presented include roof supports

artists and craftspeople working in felt. Workshops give visitors an opportunity to try felt-making by hand for themselves.

in the Rhône valley. The techniques are demonstrated using working equipment of yarn preparation, handloom weaving and mechanised weaving. Many earlier examples of equipment are also preserved in the museum

fibres to finished paper. A waterwheel is connected to ‘Hollander beaters’ for preparing the pulp. Hand processes are demonstrated of dipping a frame of wire mesh into liquid pulp, removing the sheets and

particularly in the manufacture and working of crystal, used for fine table wares, ornaments and chandeliers. Crystal glass in the past incorporated a high proportion of lead, but it is now made by a lead-free

all its villages. The process of destruction is still continuing and, at the same time, a new "second-hand" landscape is being created. North-east of Eschweiler is the Inden open-cast mine , one of three

nationalized in 1945, then became privately owned again in 1993. It still produces high-quality, hand-made glasswares. Tours of the factory take visitors to see the glass-blowers at work in the furnace building