The textile industry is an industry of the producing trade. In the textile industry textile raw materials (vegetable like flax, jute, sisal and cotton or animal like sheep wool and silk) are converted to textilen products (fabric, felt etc.) and improved the latters to textilen utensils (e.g. articles of clothing).

The textile industry belongs to the oldest branches of industry, it spread directly with the Industriellen revolution. In the Middle Ages textile products in the domestic enterprise (to the internal requirement or for a publisher) were manufactured or in small crafts enterprises.

History

The textile industry was common in the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern times particularly in the German low mountain ranges, since these areas offered both favorable climatic conditions for the cultivation of flax, and extensive meadows for the sheep breed was present. From this a linen and a Wollverarbeitung (spinning mill and weaving mill) developed.

The textile industry was in nearly all low mountain ranges available, particularly: Swabian Alb, Eifel, Rhn, Vogelsberg, Frankenwald, Erzgebirge, Black Forest and Bavarian forest.

Important parts of the textile industry of the German low mountain ranges developed as alternative industries for the declining and/or the given up mining industry - so the point and Posamentenindustrie of the ore mountains and the Trikotagenindustrie of the Swabian Alb.

By from England outgoing the mechanization of the Spinn and Web procedure end 18. Century and the displacement of linen and wool by the cotton lost the textile industry in the low mountain ranges increasingly in meaning, which finally led to large economic emergency (weber rebellion). However the meaning of the cotton-processing textile industry rose, e.g. in the German-Dutch border area.

From 1955 to 1980 were lost in the Federal Republic of Germany over 400.000 jobs into the textile and the clothing industry.

Meaning of the textile industry today

Today the textile industry in Europe has a subordinated meaning. Many materials come from the low price countries, which cover a large part of the European need, among other things the People's Republic of China, India, South Korea and Taiwan. They are colored there and sewn.

Techniques of the textile industry

Techniques of the textile industry are for example:

Centers of the textile industry

Traditional centers of the textile industry in Germany are Aachen, Apolda, Augsburg, Aschaffenburg, Bielefeld, Bocholt, Chemnitz and the westSaxonian ore mountain before country with Crimmitschau, Krefeld, Moenchengladbach, north horn, Upper Franconia, Plauen and the Vogtland, Rheine, Wuppertal as well as Zittau, the Oberlausitz and the meadow valley in the south Black Forest.

In Austria are this Vorarlberg and the forest quarter, where above all the volume production was resident and therefore also the Bandlkramerlandl is designated, and the

In Switzerland the textile industry was particularly in east Switzerland and represented in the inhabitant of zurich upper country with manufacturing plants strongly. Today Winterthur with the head office of the company Rieter and other one is a location, at which many textile machines are developed.

Literature

• Axel and Manfred Hamm: The industrial history of the textile, VDI publishing house, Duesseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-18-400728-6

See also

• Linen industry
• Crespi d'Adda
• Knitting department

Related links

• Globalization very closely: Conditions of work in the clothing economy and the influence of the consumers. Information of verbraucherbildung.de (education portal consumer center of the Federal association registered association)
• Waldviertler textile route
• Side of the European textile routes, routes in Germany
• European route of the industrial culture
• Side of the textile museum Bocholt

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