The museum is closed due to relocation. We will open again 2014 in the Textile Fashion Center.
Borås lies at the centre of a textile region and is nowadays best known for its clothing and mail order services. Despite the attention given to well-known fashion designers, most of the clothes in our collection are still designed and manufactured anonymously.
Our large collections enable us to show fashion and furnishing fabrics from the entire 20th century. The display aims to give visitors an insight into what has been produced in the region in the past and is still, to a certain extent, manufactured here. The collection includes garments for all sorts of uses: coats, leisure wear, working clothes, dresses, underwear and clothes for special occasions.
Textile fabrics come in every imaginable form, from the finest lace and smoothest silk to soft woollen fabrics and coarser materials for outdoor use. Also on display are printed fabrics. The printed patterns show the richness and diversity of 20th century design: copies of foreign textiles from the early years, the breakthrough for Swedish design in the 1950s with daring new geometric patterns and the soft colours of fabrics aimed at the export market in the 1980s.
The museum also contains one of Europe's largest collection of textile manufacturing machines that are still in working order. These machines include automatic spinning machines, various looms for different weaving requirements, machines for producing knitted fabrics, sewing machines of many different sorts and numerous machines for treating and finishing textiles. There is also a steam engine of the kind that was used to power factories before the arrival of electricity and a complete scale model of a sewing factory from 1949.
The collection was started when the museum was set up in 1972. We are now able to give visitors a fascinating glimpse of the industry that once established Borås as Sweden's leading textile centre.
The Textile Museums also houses a reference library and extensive collections of textiles currently not on display.
+4633-35 70 00
textilmuseet@boras.se
Head of Museum
Ulrika Kullenberg
+4633-35 89 52
+4676-888 89 52
Visiting adress
Druveforsvägen 8
SE-504 33 Borås
Sweden
Mailing adress
Textilmuseet
SE-501 80 Borås
Sweden
The museum is closed
due to relocation.
We will open again 2014.
Admissions
Adults 50 SEK
Students 25 SEK
Free admission below age of 25
+4633-35 70 00 or e-mail
textilmuseet@boras.se