The Can Marfà Knitwear Museum (), located in

Mataró Mataró () is the capital and largest town of the Maresme county in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the Costa del Maresme, Maresme coast, to the south of Costa Brava, between Cabrera de Mar and Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, north-east of Barcel ...

(Spain). Part of the

Mataró Museum The Mataró Museum is a museum in Mataró, in El Maresme, with a central office in Can Serra, a fortified Renaissance architecture, Renaissance building dating back to 1565. The museum, which is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museu ...

it is devoted to the

knitting Knitting is a method for production of textile Knitted fabric, fabrics by interlacing yarn loops with loops of the same or other yarns. It is used to create many types of garments. Knitting may be done Hand knitting, by hand or Knitting machi ...

and

hosiery Hosiery, (, ) also referred to as legwear, describes garments worn directly on the foot, feet and human leg, legs. The term originated as the collective term for products of which a maker or seller is termed a hosier; and those products are also ...

industry. It is situated in one of the three-storey warehouses of the former Marfà factory in Mataró, the most important

Knitted fabric Knitted fabric is a textile that results from knitting, the process of inter-looping of yarns or inter-meshing of loops. Its properties are distinct from woven fabric in that it is more flexible and can be more readily constructed into smaller ...

factory in Spain before 1936. The facility has 1,800 m² distributed over three floors.

Ground floor: The temporary exhibition area

The ground floor houses the history of textile industry, technology, design and fashion. It is the area of temporary exhibitions.

First floor: Mataró, the capital of knitwear

The permanent exhibition presents more than one hundred industrial objects explaining the knitwear manufacturing process in

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from the 18th century to present day: Machinery, tools, clothing, advertising and documents, aiming to highlight one of the most important collections of its kind in Europe.

Thematic areas

The exhibition is arranged in seven thematic areas: * ''Audiovisual introduction'': Overview of the characteristics of the knitwear industry in Mataró. * ''From

Fiber Fiber (spelled fibre in British English; from ) is a natural or artificial substance that is significantly longer than it is wide. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials. The strongest engineering materials often inco ...

to Mesh'': The manufacturing process of knitwear:

Spinning Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spin (physics) or particle spin, a fundamental property of elementary particles * Spin quantum number, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thr ...

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 ...

design A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...

cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the sca ...

, Finishing and

Packaging and labeling Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a co ...

. * ''The early years of knitting'': From traditional to mechanical

loom A loom is a device used to weaving, weave cloth and tapestry. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the Warp (weaving), warp threads under tension (mechanics), tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads. The precise shape of ...

s. * ''The industrialization of knitwear'': Technological innovation and labor force in the textile factories. The social and urban impact. Singularity of the knitting industry for the city of Mataró. * ''Fashion, fantasy and sport'': The changes in the patterns of clothing, the influence of fashion and the upcoming of new products and technological innovations. * ''From autarky to expansion of the textile sector'': The drive to the construction of knitwear machinery. The supplier industry. The impact of the

nylon Nylon is a family of synthetic polymers characterised by amide linkages, typically connecting aliphatic or Polyamide#Classification, semi-aromatic groups. Nylons are generally brownish in color and can possess a soft texture, with some varieti ...

revolution. * ''The future of the textile industry'': The importance of design and the impact of new technologies.

Gallery first floor

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Row of looms

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Circular loom 1965

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Square

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Circular loom

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Spinning wheel A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, ...

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Straight loom

crochet Crochet (; ) is a process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread (yarn), thread, or strands of other materials. The name is derived from the French term ''crochet'', which means 'hook'. Hooks can be made ...

1910

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Sewing machine Diagram of a modern sewing machine Animation of a modern sewing machine as it stitches A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolutio ...

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Winding machine

Second floor: Warehouse of textile collections

The second floor houses documentation, preservation and research areas and displays a selection of clothing items from the 1960s to the 1980s.Can Marfà: Past, Present and Future of the textile industry
Retrieved December 23, 2019.

References

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