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Ok so I'm just gonna mush everything up into one entry. Though I'll cut it up when I post it for simplicities sake.
Lol I'm already getting an accent. Not bad, but I can feel it on my vowels. It's kinda weird. Havn't had an accent since last year o.o
lol and more food. Yeah I love food. Especially European food :d HArdly eat anything in the States but even Mum expected that. Just how I am. Don't like the food there. Here? Even the gas station food was amazing! ANyway, our cheap a** non-brand Nutella is hard as a rock 'cuz I refrigerated it x.x So while it 'defrosts' I get to tell ya 'bout the museum we went to! you can skip over the next paragraph if you want razz it's probably boring
Where to start? Guess it'd be a good idea to mention where we went first eh? Well hold on I gotta look. Only thing I know is it's part of the LVR which is Rhine-lands own history society. ok, we went to the Euskirchen (ews-curr-chin) Museum of Rhine-land Industry. Basically, an old fabric mill. Mainly wool. From the 1900-60's The only thing changed from 1960 was they added in electricity Totally perserved from when it opened in 1908 or something. How awesome is that? It was interesting going on the tour since nothing is in englisch and the tour guide hadn't practiced it in awhile. Luckily a lot fo people speak French too! biggrin While we waited on the tour to start, we went through the traveling art tour, which currently was showcasing 150years of hats. Yeah sounds really lame especially since all of it was in German, but it was cool looking at 'em and there was a doku- a documentary film on Benedict-Kuby a hat maker. In German. But damn that was a fantastic dub! Never had known it was a dub if after one of the sections his mouth and vocal cords kept moving for another 26 seconds Amazing. Oh, on to the fun stuff! (no, not sarcasm >.> I love this stuff )< ) So we go through the front of the museum which has the eh.....kinda pop up walls of fabric with the unporcessed material in bins beside it. So like the camel one had a bin with a camel on it and camel hair in it, on thw wall was a giant like blanket made out of it. And you could touch it! Was sweet. They had baumwool (cotton) and even Alpaka! They had cases of patterns, finished materials (jackets and such) cases of dyes, and a whole case of a sample shelf! They had some machines too! They had old Pfaff machines(simple german sewing machine. good ones too, mum still has hers and it's older than me), and a mass production Pfaff (a great big cutting machine that can cut like 25 patterns out at once), they had looms, combs, they even had a hook machine which I can't for the life of me remember what it's for only that they're rare. Then we got to see ther Wolferei or Willowing machine (you don't need a definition, keep reading razz ) IN ACTION! We got to watch them put wool into the machine, the teeth rip it apart and then spit it out! While we watched it work, Mum told our guide stuff including the fact that I'm considering going down to Virginia or North Carolina to study textiles. Annoying as it was, it got me a whole bag of free wool in it's different stages! and they usually charged E1.30 for a tiny handful of the stuff at the gift store! Way worth it xd We saw the different vats a drier, the Nassappretur(it washes, presses, driees and repeats the wool. in english it's called fulling. makes felt) and turbine room which also had a machine like a wolferei. Next was carding. Carding turned the washed and pulled fabric into a fluffy sheet, then into pre-yarn. Which is like yarn, but easily broken. In the spinning room you got to see the machines used to pull, spin, and wrap the now yarn onto bobbins (in case you don't know what a bobbin is, it's a little plastic wheel looking object or a wodden pole that yarn, thread and strind is wrapped around). Then we got to see the looms!! They pointed out the warp and weft threads (the different faceing threads), the shuttles and bobbins, and the chains that "programmed" the pattern. Was awesome! Weaving preparation (after weaving XD ) showed the yarn being strung into sheet of warp threads that then gets fed into the weaving machine. There, the weft shuttles were put together and customized. The last room of production was finishing. Here, the fabric was looked over for errors and repaired. After, we saw the boiler and an actual steam engine! It used to power the whole factory! Then the boring part >.< the office and cloth store.
You may now start reading if you skipped it over. If you didn't, well you were very bored xd
Ah.....NussPli and BelMandel are awesome :d (rip-off nutella, and nutella made out of almonds) but gotta go, bread truck coming!
Yummy! Got croissants, Halla bread (Halva? whatever that jewish bread), breakfast rolls, a danish and a cinnamon roll that tastes just like doughnuts!
 BSPBleach · Tue May 08, 2012 @ 08:43pm · 0 Comments |
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