Textiles
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Amiens Cathedral | The creation of wealth linked to the trade in drapery and woad explains why in the cathedral, the axial chapel of the Virgin was originally dedicated to "Our Lady the draper" (Notre-Dame drapière). (wiki fr) | |
| Belfries | Cloth Hall of Ypres | |
| Brugge | Cloth Hall | |
| Camino Real | Ojuelos - 19th century wool textile buildings (AB ev) | |
| Champagne | Several Champagne houses were founded by textile merchants, e.g. Nicolas Ruinart, Philippe Clicquot et Florens Ludwig Heidsieck. (Nomination file, p. 194) | |
| Chinchorro Culture | In river mouth environments, an important diversity of species emerges when there is good irrigation, forming wetland areas locally known as chimbas. In these wetlands, abundant swordgrass and southern cattails can be found, the main components of diverse Chinchorro textiles. The characteristics of these wetlands can still be seen today (...) in Camarones, in areas that have suffered little intervention and are closely associated with the remains of the Chinchorro occupation. (Chinchorro Culture Nomination Text, p. 91) | |
| Colonies of Benevolence | At its inception, the Colonies project was essentially agricultural, but soon introduced a variety of supplementary industries, such as cotton weaving, to generate income. By 1841, it was the second-largest exporter of cotton cloth to the Dutch East Indies colony. (Nomination file, p. 84) | |
| Crespi d'Adda | Started by the textile manufacturer Cristoforo Benigno Crespi | |
| Damascus | Lace | |
| Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland | Linen : The wealth of Hälsingland derived to a significant degree from the growing of flax and the production of linen. An earlier version of the nomination included a flax mill and the Gästgivars farmhouse contains a "flax barn". The nomination file contains an entire section titled "Linen production" and includes the following - "The processing of the flax into finished textiles was performed at home on the Hälsingland farms". | |
| Derwent Valley Mills | ||
| Flemish Béguinages | "In all cases, each [beguine] had to provide for her own keep, and many worked in the textile industry." (AB Ev) From the 17th century on, textile production was definitively abandoned in favour of the education of young girls. (Nomination file, p. 8) - The first Beguines in Bruges were, as elsewhere, girls of modest origin, who made a living by working in the cloth industry. Much water was needed to treat the cloth, so they settled near a watercourse. | |
| Florence | "Palazzo dell' Arte della Lana" was the guildhall of the Florentine wool merchants | |
| Hedeby and Danevirke | The numerous pit houses in Hedeby probably served to process textiles during summer. | |
| Heritage of Mercury | Idrija: The same routes used by mercury were also the trade routes for Idrijan lace, created by miners' wives from the 17th century onwards. (nom file) | |
| Kraków | Sukiennice Cloth Hall | |
| Lyon | Musée des Tissus (Museum of Textiles - 1864) | |
| New Lanark | ||
| Prehistoric Pile Dwellings | the oldest textiles in Europe dating to 3,000 BC come from the pile dwellings (AB ev) | |
| Provins | It bears witness to early developments in the organization of international trading fairs and the wool industry (UNESCO website) | |
| Saltaire | ||
| Siena | The Fontebranda fountain "was built in the 13th century by the Guild of the Wool-makers (Lana)." One of its uses was "to wash clothes, especially the textiles made by Arte della Lana (Guild of Wool-makers)". | |
| Talayotic Menorca | 13 spindle whorls and 67 loom weights, all made of ceramic, were found in "a Late Talayotic dwelling at the Torre d'en Galmés settlement (Component C7), known as circle 7". "From this and other finds, we can conclude that spinning and weaving tasks are rather well documented in Menorca during the Late Talayotic period. However, the technology used for such processes during earlier periods remains unknown (...)." (Nomination file, p. 274-275) | |
| Tomioka Silk Mill | "the first appearance in the country of the large functional and mechanised factory for the mass production of textiles" (AB ev) | |
| Tugendhat Villa | Fritz Tugendhat owned a textile factory | |
| Val d'Orcia | The existence of fulling mills at Bagno Vignoni is documented from 1416. (Nomination file, p. 123) | |
| Water Management System of Augsburg | Especially in the east of the city, numerous textile factories along the canals and water courses, so that Augsburg was also called the Manchester of Germany. (nom file) |
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