Mesh Museum
The Maschenmuseum was founded in 1996 in the traditional location of the textile industry Tailfingen , a district of Albstadt . There, the history of the knitting industry in the Zollernalb region from 1750 to the present day is documented in the permanent exhibition . Special exhibitions on cultural, social and fashion history issues as well as exhibitions by contemporary artists related to the textile industry take place regularly.
Special exhibitions (selection)
- Technical textiles (2011)
- Creation Story - A Crocheted Exhibition by Katharina Krenkel (2009/2010)
- Tailfinger Dance of Death (Helmut Anton Zirkelbach, 2009)
- "... and the bodice beckons again and again!" (2008)
- threadbare. VBKW artists discover the Maschenmuseum (2008)
- Texts - Textures - Textiles (2007/2008)
- Button - buttons. On the cultural history of an apparently inconspicuous accessory
Literature (selection)
- K. Bergmann: The tricot industry in Tailfingen / Württemberg , Tübingen 1947
- The rise of the active town of Tailfingen . Festschrift 80 years of the Christian Schöller company, o.O. 1951
- Zollernalb profiles. Published by von Zollernalbkreis, Balingen 1988, ISBN 3-927249-01-7
- Gabriele Mentges et al .: Open and Close - Of buttons, laces, zippers. Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-9290055-34-1
- People, meshes and machines. The history of the mesh industry in the Albstadt area , ed. from the city of Albstadt, Albstadt 1996
- Nothing is inside, nothing is outside. Published by the Baden-Württemberg Museum Association and Authors, Esslingen 2002, ISBN 3-9808251-0-8
- Journal of Hohenzollern history. Special edition, Volume 40, 2004
- threadbare. VBKW artists discover the Maschenmuseum , exhibition catalog, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-929419-59-7
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Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '20.5 " N , 9 ° 0' 58.9" E