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Derby Silk Mill, formerly known as Derby Industrial Museum, is a museum of industry and history in Derby, England. The museum is located on the former site of Lombe's Mill , a historic silk mill which marks the southern end of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
Lombe's Mill was the first successful silk throwing mill in England and probably the first fully mechanised factory in the world. [3] Thomas Cotchett's mill, built in Derby in 1704, was a failure. John Lombe had visited the successful silk throwing mill in Piedmont in 1716, an early example of industrial espionage. He returned to Derby with the ...
Lombe's Mill in Derby was the first successful powered silk-throwing mill in England. John Lombe visited a successful silk-throwing mill in Piedmont in 1717, and returned to England with details of the Italian silk-throwing machines – the filatoio and torcitoio and with some Italian craftsman-built replicas. [3]
Although one of the buildings is now demolished, the right-hand mill is Derby Silk Mill, now The Museum of Making, part of Derwent Valley Mills, a World Heritage Site. The painting is displayed (in 2023) in The Museum of Making, part of Derby Museums, at the entrance to the Throwing Room.
At the extreme southern end of the site, Lombe's Silk Mill now houses the Derby Industrial Museum. [55] This museum closed on 3 April 2011 and was mothballed for over two years. [56] In October 2013 a programme started to reinvent the silk mill for the 21st Century, incorporating the principles of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art ...
Lombe's Mill site today, rebuilt as Derby Silk Mill. In the early years of the 18th century, Lombe was apprentice to Samuel Totton, a mercer, and admitted to the freedom of the Mercers' Company in 1707. In the same year, he became a freeman of the City of London. He eventually established himself as a merchant.
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Lombe's Mill was the first successful silk throwing mill in England and probably the first fully mechanised factory in the world. [3] Between 1717 and 1721 George built the mill, beside the River Derwent to the south of Cotchett's failed Mill to house machines for "doubling" or twisting silk into thread.