Hand-made textile production

The section "Manual Textile Production" covers the period from the 7th millennium BC to the end of the 19th century. It presents early spinning and weaving devices, equipment and techniques used in homemade, craftsman and manufacturing production in the Bulgarian lands, the first inventions that marked the beginning of industrialization in Europe and in our country.

A special place is dedicated to the founder of Bulgarian industry – Dobri Zhelyazkov – Fabrikadjiata/the Factory Worker, who in 1834 created the first textile factory in our lands.

Demonstrations are performed of a vertical loom; a loom with a comb; a loom with wooden plates; a horizontal loom; a "flying shuttle" loom from the end of the 19th century; a Jacquard loom, which represents the first machine with a working program and was manufactured in Austria in the end of the 19th century.