Photos from a textile factory museum

A while ago - actually about a year and a half ago - I visited a textile factory museum in Ventron, France. I came across the photos and realized I'd never shared them. Here are some highlights, but you can see a few more over on my Flickr site.

 

The museum is in a lovely setting in the Vosges mountains of eastern France. Many families in this isolated area of France were once employed by this factory and others like it in the region. They were very proud of the cloth and thread they produced. But with the industrial progress after WWII, textile production turned large-scale and relocated to mostly Asian countries, causing the factories here to close.