Barnängens Manufaktur
Barnängens manufaktur (literary: "Children's Meadow's Manufacture"), was a textile factory in the Barnängen ("Children's Meadow") area in Södermalm in Stockholm in Sweden, active from 1691 until 1826. Alongside its main rival '' Pauliska manufakturerna'' (The 'Paulinian Manufactures', active in 1673-1776), it was the biggest factory in Stockholm during the 18th-century, and during the 1780s, it employed more people than any other business in the city, the majority of whom were women. The factory has been fictionalized in the novel ''Vävarnas barn'' (Children of the Weavers) by Per Anders Fogelström from 1981. History Barnängens manufaktur was founded by Jacob Gavelius, who established a textile mill at the Barnängen area in 1691. The factory consists of several buildings: the textile mill from 1691, the textilier building from 1758, the Corps de logis from 1767, and the factory- and storage buildings from 1782. The spinning factory used Cannabis sativa and Flax to make yar ...
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