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Central Museum of Textiles
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Central Museum of Textiles
Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa
ul. Piotrkowska 282, 93-034 Łódź
Director: mgr Norbert Zawisza
tel. (+48 42) 683 26 84, 684 61 42
fax (+48 42) 684 33 55
www.muzeumwlokiennictwa.pl
Opening hours: Closed Mondays and public holidays; open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9am-5pm; Thursdays, 11am-7pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-4pm.

It is only natural that The Central Museum of Textiles should be located in Lodz, the town being Poland's centre of the textile industry. The Museum opened in 1960 in the so-called White Factory, Poland's first automated multi-department mill. Erected by Ludwik Geyer in the nineteenth century, the bulding owes its name to its white-painted walls, standing apart from the brick buildings of that time.

The Museum preserves cotton processing tools and machines; samples and pieces of fabrics from all textile mills (the 70,000 items form Poland's largest collection of this kind); examples of folk weaving, including laces, embroideries, carpets and rugs; old and contemporary fabrics from the leading textile centres of Europe, Asia, Central and South America and Africa. The collection of more than 200 Polish rugs ranging in date from the eighteenth through the twentieth century is second in size and importance only to the holdings of the National Museum in Cracow. Of note is also a collection of female and male costume and accessories such as shoes, hats, bags and jewellery. Reflecting the main fashion trends from the nineteenth century to contemporary times, the collection is particularly strong in day, evening and ball dress from the 1920s. Visitors are also attracted by a collection of fans dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, painted and embroidered scarves, and a very interesting archive of Antoine (Antoni Cierplikowski), the famous French hairdresser and stylist of Polish origin, containing clothes and accessories he designed.

It is, however, the collection of post-1945 artistic textiles that is most admired and fuels the Museum's world-wide prestige. It is made up of unique works made using traditional techniques by Eleonora Plutynska, Helena Bukowska and Anna Slendziewska as well as of pieces by artists of such renown as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Wojciech Sadley, Jolanta Owidzka, Maria Chojnacka, Jozef Lukomski, Andrzej Rajch, Jolanta Rudzka-Fabisiak and many others. It is their tapestries, three-dimensional fabrics, woven paintings and sculptures that have made the so-called Polish school of weaving highly valued by the international art market since the 1960s. Indeed, the Museum boasts a number of very successful exhibitions at the most prestigious centres and galleries of Europe, Asia and America. The Museum's premises are, in turn, the venue of the International Triennial of Tapestry, an invariably high ranking artistic event.

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