1 The river that flows through my town is lined with many old industrial buildings; most of them nowadays converted to serve other purpose...

  This cotton mill at Rydal (Västergötland, Sweden) was built in 1853, along the river Viskan - the same river that also flows through the t...

At the Textile Museum (link to a previous post) there is also a permanent exhibition of old machinery used in production of textiles. Borås...

Walking into town on Saturday, I passed by an arts and crafts shop, where they were having a kind of exhibition outside, demonstrating the p...

The cotton mill at Sjuntorp near Trollhättan was the second mechanical cotton spinning mill to be built in Sweden, back in 1831. Accodin...