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Museum De Lakenhal is the visual arts, history and crafts museum of the city of Leiden. The museum is housed in the former Leiden Cloth Hall, a building that dates back to 1640. The collection includes highlights by old masters such as Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Steen, alongside works by modern and contemporary artists such as Theo van Doesburg, Charley Toorop and Erwin Olaf. Leiden's illustrious past is covered in collection presentations such as The Siege and Relief of Leiden (1574) and Seven Centuries of Leiden Cloth.
The production of woollen cloth has determined the identity and position of the city of Leiden for seven centuries. The textile industry made Leiden the largest city in Holland in the 15th century and the most important textile centre in the world in the 17th century. Thousands of textile workers from the Southern Netherlands, England, Germany and France, who fled their countries for political or religious reasons, found work here. The strong, woollen fabric is very popular all over the world and the cloth weights, with which the fabric is given its hallmark, can be found all over the world.
In order to guarantee quality, the city council set up seven hallmarking facilities for cloth, saai, baai, grein, ras, warp and fustein. The most important, the Laecken-Halle, opened in 1641. This building is now part of the building sections that house Museum De Lakenhal. The façade of the old cloth hall is full of references to the textile industry: five tables depict the production process in nine stages, and there are sheep on the roof.
The Woolmark Company is a not-for-profit enterprise that conducts research, development and marketing along the worldwide supply chain for Australian wool on behalf of about 60,000 woolgrowers that help fund the company. Woolmark the world’s most recognised textile fibre brand - the Woolmark logo has been applied to more than 5 billion products since 1964.
The Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC) includes more than 10,000 items of apparel, accessories, and flat textiles dating from the eighteenth century to present, including substantial collections of functional clothing, technical textiles, and ethnographic costume. The collection is used for exhibition, research, and teaching. A gallery displaying selections from the CF+TC is located on the Terrace Level of the Human Ecology Building, and is free and open to the public during normal weekday business hours when the University is in session.
The Journal of Natural Fibers presents new achievements in basic research and the development of multi-purpose applications that further the economical and ecological production of hard fibers, protein fibers, seed, bast, leaf, and cellulosic fibers. An international panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners examines new processing methods and techniques, new trends and economic aspects of processing natural raw materials, sustainable agriculture and eco-friendly techniques that address environmental concerns, the efficient assessment of the life cycle of natural fibers-based products, and the natural reclamation of polluted land.
The Design Library’s business is the sale and licensing of antique, vintage, modern and contemporary textile designs for inspiration to the fashion, home furnishings, textile, wall covering, graphic arts, and paper product industries.
The Design Library has the world’s largest collections of documentary fabrics, original paintings, wallpapers, embroideries and yarn dyes, numbering over seven million designs. The collections date from the 1750s to the present and are sorted into over 1200 categories for easy access.
There exists an infinity of ways to design a piece of paper or fabric. Across three hundred years of highly skilled creative work a marvelous assortment of designs has emerged. Pattern is everywhere and has always been a powerful means of individual and cultural expression.
Located directly on the little river Anger and embedded in an old English landscape park is one of the oldest preserved industrial complexes in Germany: the cotton spinning mill Cromford in Ratingen. Established in 1783/84 by the merchant and entrepreneur Johann Gottfried Brügelmann from Wuppertal, it is now regarded as the first fully mechanised cotton spinning mill on the continent of Europe. The early industrial complex dating from the late 18th century is almost completely preserved. The five-storey "Hohe Fabrik" (High Mill) and the late baroque Cromford mansion – today both buildings belonging to the LVR-Industriemuseum - the "Alte Fabrik" (Old Mill), the plain living quarters of the workers, the office and the wheelhouse which once housed the waterwheel.
Museum de Kantfabriek shows how textile industry was once the basis for the economic prosperity of the North Limburg region. Sheep were kept on the poor soil in order to fertilise it. The wool was spun and woven into cloth in winter. Later, the farmers also grew flax, which they processed themselves into linen. The number of home weaving mills was large. This created an area of expertise for textile crafts and the textile industry, traces of which can still be found today.
Until 2006, the almost antique bobbin lace machines of the Zuid Nederlandse Kantfabriek were still in daily use to produce lace from thousands of tiny threads. Some of these machines have been preserved and you can see them in action in the museum. You can smell the lubricating oil and hear and feel the thumping of the machines. The lace is formed before your eyes by the interplay of machine, bobbins and needles at a rapid pace and with an ingenious logic.
Wherever the textile industry developed, magnificent examples of textile art emerged. Museum de Kantfabriek has an extraordinary collection of old and modern objects, which you can see in permanent and temporary exhibitions. You can see, hear, read and do it yourself.
Fashion for Good is a platform for sustainable innovation to connect those working on sustainable innovation with brands, retailers, manufacturers and funders to bring new ideas and technologies from niche to norm.
The Fashion for Good Museum is an interactive fashion museum for the future of fashion. The museum tells the stories behind the clothes you wear and how your choices can have a positive impact on people and our planet.
Fashion for Good also publishes open-source circular apparel tools, guides and reports.
Markets need trustworthy and accessible information in order to grow. Since 2007, Ecolabel Index has been the provider of that information for the ecolabel market. Ecolabel Index collects and structures data on ecolabels globally, increasing transparency and helping buyers and sellers use them more effectively. Ecolabel Index is operated by Big Room, a corporation based in Vancouver, Canada.
DTB is a knowledge network consisting of member companies that cover the entire textile chain, education facilities, institutes and relevant committees. DTB´s regular events and seminars offer a national and international platform for an open dialogue between experts in order to mutually generate future-oriented solution processes for the textile industry. Accordingly DTB´s competences include, amongst other, the fields of sustainability, sourcing, multi-channel and quality management.