The Textile Museum of Borås ( sv, Textilmuseet i Borås) is a

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textile Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not the ...

history in Borås, Sweden.

History

Historically a textile and fashion industry was centered at

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and the area of Sjuhäradsbygden in southern

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. Sweden's textile industry began to build up in the early 19th century. Decline of the Swedish textile industry from the 1950s resulted in reduced employment leading into the mid-1970s. The Textile Museum in Borås started in 1972 in the premises of a former textile factory, Åkerlunds Bomullsspinneri AB. That plant had dated to 1898 and was designed by English

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Philip Sidney Stott (1858–1937). In 2012, the museum was closed after it was decided to gather Borås' textile operations in the same building. In May 2014, the museum was reopened in new premises in the Simonsland neighborhood in the former premises of Svenskt Konstsilke AB. The Textile

Museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

is a city-owned museum with two missions. It is first an industrial and mechanical museum, showing the growth of the Swedish

textile industry The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of yarn, cloth and clothing. The raw material may be natural, or synthetic using products of the chemical industry. Industry process Cotton manufacturi ...

through spinning and

yarn Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, and the production of textiles. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manu ...

production, the

weaving Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Other methods are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal ...

fabric Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not th ...

s, and the knitting of tricot. Secondly, it is a museum of creation, showing and collecting

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textile design from the 20th century onward.

References

Other sources

*Ericson, Anders (1979) ''Stagnation, kris och utveckling: strategier och utvecklingsförlopp i svenska teko-företag'' (Malmö: LiberLäromedel)

External links

Textilmuseet website
History museums in Sweden Textile museums Museums in Västra Götaland County Culture in Borås {{Sweden-museum-stub