Textiles
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Connected Sites
- Belfries: Cloth Hall of Ypres Link
- 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
- 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) Link
- 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
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