Textile museum tour

Name: Textile museum tour
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée du textile

Let yourself be guided in this old textile factory and discover how cotton fabrics were made.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Adult discount: €4; Child price: €2.50 for children aged 10 to 16; Free for children under 10.

©Musée du Textile Ventron

Let yourself be guided in this old textile factory and discover how cotton fabrics were made.

A guide will accompany you for a visit of 1h30 in the former textile factory of Grand-Ventron. You will start with the history of the building, then the energies used during the operation of the plant, then you will discover the steps to make a yarn from raw cotton, then the steps to make a cotton fabric.
You will end up in the exhibition hall where there are silk woven paintings and small looms on which you can practice.
All this is complemented by demonstrations of spinning and weaving machines.
You can also discover a 30 HP steam engine in motion at reduced speed, as well as various small machines. The visit ends with the shop where are sold textile articles from the museum, made during demonstrations and made at the museum, but also articles from factories in the Vosges and Vosges.

About the location

Musée du textile

8 vieille route du col d'Oderen, 88310 Ventron

Vosges
Grand Est

Since the most old(former) civilisations, the use(custom) of textiles(textile industries) accompanies the man in its everyday life. Installed(Settled) in an old(former) weaving built in 1850 in the side of the vosgienne mountain, the museum redraws the history(story) of the manufacturing of the thread(wire) and of the fabric(tissue) with the aid of many led machines. A succession of machines allows to include the transformation(processing) of the cotton, of the ball(bullet) in the thread(wire) and of the thread(wire) in any kind of fabrics(tissues).