From Traditional Textile Manufactories to Mechanical Textile Factories

Abstract

Among traditional textile manufactories on the Slovene national territory, the first bigger manufactory began to work in Ljubljana in 1724, and the second in Celovec (Klagenfurt) in 1764. In the 60's of the 18th century, ten smaller manufactories came to existance but they worked for few years only. At the end of this century, two rather big manufactories began to work. Ali of them were based on processing flax, hemp and wool. Cotton as raw material vvas little known until the end of the 18th century, and was processed only by three or four rather small manufactories. Modem mechanical cotton factories appeared in the follovving chronological order: in 1928 at Ajdovščina, in 1938 in Ljubljana, in the year 1842 at Prebold, and in the year 1849 near Gorica. Factories that appeared later are not dealt with in this report.