Textiles
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Belfries | Cloth Hall of Ypres | |
| Brugge | Cloth Hall | |
| Camino Real | Ojuelos - 19th century wool textile buildings (AB ev) | |
| Cracow | Sukiennice Cloth Hall | |
| Crespi d'Adda | Started by the textile manufacturer Cristoforo Benigno Crespi | |
| Damascus | Lace | |
| Derwent Valley Mills | ||
| 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) | |
| 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 | ||
| Tugendhat Villa | Fritz Tugendhat owned a textile factory | |
| 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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