Industrial machines of the Abegg Silk Museum
Life as a brusher-woman
Filmed interviews with former spinning mill workers
Piedmontese reeling and the Lombard variation
An example of 18th-century silk processing
White hands
Our hands were always in the hot, almost boiling water...
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Song of protest
The spinner-women
Filmed interviews with former spinning mill workers.
Processing phases and worker's job descriptions
infographic
The spinning mill in the early 1900s
Historic video of the Galbiate spinning mill
Sampling the silk
Filmed interview with a former silk quality control worker
From the skeins to the spool
Filmed interviews with former winding operators.o
The museum
Photo gallery
The throwing mill
Filmed interviews with former throwing mill workers
The throwing mill in the early 1900s
Historic video of throwing mills in the area
Quality control in the early 1900s
Historic video of the Galbiate spinning mille