Museum of Industry Ghent
Former cotton spinning mill housing working looms, printing presses and a smuggled spinning mule.
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This guide to the Museum of Industry in Ghent follows Lieven Bauwens, a Ghent merchant who went to England in seventeen ninety-eight, when Britain banned the export of its cotton machines. It tracks crates of sugar and coffee, hired English artisans, and a departure from Gravesend on an ordinary day. Best heard on the top floor, near the old spinning machines.
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