under the brand name Globus but soon also began making gun cartridges. Two years later he opened a textile factory at Ružomberok (now in Slovakia). By 1890, the arms industry was the most important branch

in Stockholm and was apprenticed in his uncle’s textile-dyeing workshop at Norrköping. At the age of 18 he began a three-year study tour to see textile industries in Sweden, Germany, Austria and other [...] plant on the Kuusankoski rapids at Kouvola, 130km north-east of Helsinki. In the 20th century the textile factories at Forssa became the largest in Finland under the brand Finlayson. Today Wahren’s spinning

and bedspreads in silk, cotton and wool. In 1827 he married Regula Abegg, whose father owned a textile bleaching, dyeing and finishing works. With additional investment from his wife’s brother Hans, he

born in Basel when the dye and bleach industries there were evolving rapidly alongside the Swiss textile industries. His father was a cloth merchant. At the age of 19 he took an apprenticeship with a seller

Izrael Poznański was a textile industrialist known as one of the ‘Three Kings’ of Polish cotton alongside his rivals Karl Wilhelm Scheibler and Ludwig Ferdinand Geyer. He was one of the leading figures [...] figures in the rapid growth of Łódź as a great industrial city. Poznański’s family were textile merchants who moved within the Russian Empire to Łódź when he was an infant. At this time Łódź had a small population [...] married Leonia Hertz, the daughter of a wealthy Warsaw merchant. At 19 he took over his family’s textile trading firm and expanded it into manufacturing. He bought up land gradually with long-term plans

early development of the railway locomotive, steam engines, machine tools and equipment for the textile industry. His ‘Salamanca’ of 1812 has been called the first commercially successful locomotive. He [...] its operation. In 1795, Murray and David Wood set up their own engineering works for manufacturing textile equipment and steam engines, with support from Marshall and later an investor called James Fenton

Bohemia. Johann travelled around France and Britain observing textile businesses and expanded the factory to weave specialist woollen textiles, including merino and mohair. He separated from his brother [...] Johann Liebieg was a textile industrialist who helped transform the region around the northern Bohemian town of Liberec into one of the major industrial centres of the Austrian Empire. Liebieg was born [...] in 1843 established a worsted spinning mill at Liberec. He continued to expand and diversify his textile production. In 1845, he opened a cotton-spinning factory near Velké Hamry that from 1855 was operated

engineer and industrialist Caspar Honegger was known as the ‘Weaver King’ for his improvements to textile looms, which he manufactured at Rüti in north-west Switzerland under the company name Caspar Honegger [...] workforce to Rüti in 1847. He devised improvements to silk weaving equipment and also built other textile machinery, machine tools, steam engines and turbines. By 1870, he had sold 30,000 ‘Rüti’ looms to [...] housing, schools and churches. Honegger contributing significantly to the mechanization of the Swiss textile industry as well as to the growth of mechanical engineering in the country. Examples of Rüti looms

province of Málaga. He was constructing a chemical works at La Constancia and investing in a modern textile factory, the Industria Malagueña, which opened the year after he died. An obituary called him ‘the

example of mass production. Brunel went on to design several sawmills and develop machines for the textiles, printing and boot-making industries among others. Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for debts and

further advances, notably rotary motion, which allowed steam power to be applied to rolling mills, textile machinery and a multitude of other purposes. Between 1775 and 1800 the firm installed approximately

scientific causes. Abbe was born in 1840 at Eisenach in Thuringia, where his father was a foreman in a textile mill. His father’s employer helped Abbe to attend schools at Jena. He subsequently took a degree

city of Łódź, the ‘White Factory’ was the first fully-fledged textile mill in Poland. The site is now home to the Central Museum of Textiles and is considered one of the country's most impressive monuments [...] its extensive range of machinery and several major textile collections, it provides a detailed insight into 200 years of everyday working life and textile history in Łódź. A special feature of the museum [...] heute Wissen. Das Kulturzentrum EC1 in Lódź Gewebte Geschichte authentisch erzählt. Das Zentrale Textilmuseum in Lódź Verkehrsgeschichte auf den Punkt gebracht. Das Eisenbahnmuseum von Schlesien in Jaworzyna

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

equipment, causing serious health problems and even death. Female prisoners were mainly employed in the textile industry, for example in the production of tights and bed linen. Here, too, the pressure to perform [...] products of forced labour were often exported to West Germany in exchange for foreign currency: Textiles, cameras, furniture and other items ended up on Western rummage tables and in mail-order catalogues

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

today, fuelled by the energy of its residents, have been given a completely new life. Once giants of textile production, they now operate as museums, hotels, cultural institutions or entertainment and trade [...] workshops, and learn about the industrial heritage of Łódź, visiting, among others, the Central Textile Museum, Manufaktura Complex, Księży Młyn (Priest Mill Complex) and Monopolis. The main part of the [...] y experiences. Among them, 12 are located in Poland, including 3 in Łódź. These are the Central Textile Museum, EC 1 – City of Culture Complex and Manufaktura Complex. No other European city has as many

Climate change is now the greatest threat to our cultural heritage. Numerous concepts and framework agreements such as the European Green Deal or the Cultural Heritage Green Paper call for CO2 neutral