Museo y Colegio del Arte Mayor de la Seda
Guild hall of velvet weavers, its archive holding centuries of masters', journeymen's and apprentices' records.
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This guide to the Museo y Colegio del Arte Mayor de la Seda in Valencia starts in Velluters, the velvet weavers' quarter, with a knock on a workshop door and the men who had the right to make it. You'll hear how the silk guild rose in the eighteenth century and what a royal title in 1686 gave it. Inside, the old board room has a painted ceiling and a tiled floor that repay a slow look, so stand in the doorway before you go in.
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