We love to visit industrial heritage museums, long-established manufactories, interesting workshops and meet the workers and especially the ‚old masters’ telling about their work-life and experiences. With this blog we are happy to share our little roadtrips with you! You can also subsribe to our newsletter to receive further stories!...
The Relief Engraver Workshop – established in 1951 – was specialized in the manufacturing of tools for producing baroque frames. It was fascinating to see how the elaborate process starts with a delicate drawing and fine artistic modeling in plasticine clay and ends in extremly hard physical work of steel...
Visiting this abandoned jewelry manufactory was special. Sad that they had to close after being in business for 150 years because of high costs, falling prices and fading demand. The big presses and steel tools were used for embossing pendants, earrings and closures for necklaces. We are happy to got...
Always a pleasure to visit the great "Technikmuseum Pforzheim" about jewelry manufacturing in Pforzheim. Everytime we were here we learned something new from the ‚old masters’ – the great volunteers showing almost forgotten crafts to the visitors, telling about their work-life and experiences. This time we were lucky to hear...
Great to visit the Museum Textile Factory "Museum Wäschefabrik" in Bielefeld which was left in original condition since its closing in the 1980s. They produced bed linen, table cloth and garments with embroidery.After the boom in the 1950s, the orders went back in the 1960s. The last investments were made...
