This week a group of Canadian visitors mentioned Mississippi Valley Textile Museum.
This museum in Ontario focuses on the textile industry, labour practices and labourers and the history of production in the valley. Its collections, research centre, biographies and changing exhibitions offer a lively and engaging breadth for any textile enthusiast who is interested in past and present textile art and craft. In addition the museum hosts Fibrefest, a selling show that raises funds for the ongoing work of the establishment.
The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum is housed in part of a woollen mill, the Rosamond Woolen Company, in Almonte. The mill made suiting fabric and was the last factory to close down, in 1980. Once the largest textile mill in Canada the Museum in an annex of the old mill buildings now tells textile stories.
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