an important centre for the cotton industry and the manufacture of textile machinery. In 1841 he took a job at the Hauboldsche textile machine works and within three years was a manager. In 1844 he took

In 1834 Dobri Zhelyazkov (also spelled Jeliazkov or Zhelyazkovac) established the first textile factory to be built anywhere in the Balkan peninsula or the Ottoman Empire. He successfully introduced woollen [...] and cloth, which gave him an opportunity to travel around Russia studying the industrialisation of textile production. In 1834 he returned with his family to Sliven and set up a small woollen factory with [...] state broadcloth company. Other factories were established and Sliven became a centre of mechanised textile production. Although Zhelyazkov to lead the company he had built, his reputation was undermined by

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

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

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

Britain is now an exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history of the local textile industry at first hand. In the offices they can eavesdrop on the clerks. Later they can travel alongside

unit had been invented. With the mechanisation of cotton processing, the third key innovation, the textile industry then became the engine of industrialisation. The beginning of this was the “flying weaver’s [...] the first long-distance line between Manchester and the port of Liverpool: the main artery of the textile industry, through which steadily growing quantities of Indian cotton were imported and finished goods [...] achieved when cheap mass production of iron and steel began and mechanisation was completed in the textile industry. But the faster the wheels of the new industries turned, the greater their hunger for raw

that domestic businesses were unable to compete with European imports – not even the traditional textile manufacturers. The few factories, which mostly produced agricultural products such as flour and sugar [...] success – into the 21st century. This was the impetus behind e.g. Sümerbank, which began expanding textile production in 1935 with an initial factory in Kayseri However, it was the more liberal economic policies [...] originally a cotton picker, founded what is today a major family-owned corporation in 1954 with a textile factory in Adana. However, the largest family-owned Turkish company was launched by Vehbi Koç, who

leader in the felt sector. A major manufacturer of mattresses, companies specialized in paper and textile labels, as well as the only pencil factory in Portugal, are further highlights of the varied tour

the British textile area Lancashire; from then on, the route supplied the booming city of Manchester with coal. Other canals followed quickly, enabling coal to be transported to textile factories and

another country. He worked in the cotton industry in Britain and then helped to establish mechanised textile industries in two regions – the city of Hamburg and lower Austria. He grew up on a farm in Yorkshire [...] manufacturers. At this time, Britain banned the export of machinery from the country’s innovative textile industries and the emigration of skilled workers, but entrepreneurs in Europe and America were keen [...] spinning flax in Pottendorf. He also supplied equipment for weaving, aiding growth throughout Austria’s textile industries. His brothers followed him to Austria and were involved with cotton mills close by: Joseph

Thomas Bracegirdle from Leeds, in 1830 he began a works for making textile machinery. He then set up his own business making textile machinery in 1835 at Prague, which supplied machines to a large proportion

economic sectors such as shipbuilding, fishing and brewing, which had previously led Europe, declined. Textile production, established around Leiden, Delft and Haarlem, also fell behind the British competition; [...] and Amstel breweries settled in the city, shipbuilding and mechanical engineering expanded, and textile factories sprang up. The population doubled as more and more people moved from the agricultural regions

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

on the British Isles. These were followed by mechanical weaving looms, and it was not long before textile factories were shooting out of the ground. At the same time a boom in the iron industry broke out [...] machines. Women were expected to work just as hard for less pay, especially in the collieries and textile factories. Children too were unscrupulously exploited. The workers lived in constant fear of unemployment [...] competitor on an equal level with Great Britain. As early as the 18th century, supplies of cotton to the textile factories rose five times as quickly as in the British Isles. French manufacturers concentrated on

capital and labour. Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution Textile History - Invention of Textile The Heritage of the Textile Industry. Thematic Study for TICCIH Sites [...] made the county of Lancashire the leading textile region in the world. Hundreds of thousands of workers abandoned the countryside for the cities. The textile industry became the leading sector in the British [...] ON THE HISTORY OF TEXTILES PRODUCTION Listen The eighteenth century cotton mills in Britain with their rows of spinning frames and thousands of rattling bobbins heralded the coming of the Industrial Revolution

there was rich in technology. His father Marc François Séguin founded a company to manufacture textiles; his mother Thérèse-Augustine de Montgolfier was the niece of the Montgolfier brothers, paper m

engines. As many homeworkers were unable to compete with the new factories, they turned to printing textiles with colourful patterns, silk production and embroidery. Thanks to such niche products, along with [...] ng and the mechanised production of chocolate, the Swiss economy flourished. Although even more textile factories were established and watch housings were soon mass-produced, industry as a whole expanded

the first half of the 18th century: entrepreneur Jonas Alströmer founded a partially mechanised textile factory in Alingsås, and the polymath engineer Mårten Triewald erected the first steam engine at [...] but the economy continued to grow and increasing domestic demand also drove mechanisation of the textile industry, particularly in the region centred on Borås and the expanding industrial city of Norrköping