Germany: German Textile Museum in Krefeld

Last Friday I got two postcards from Germany.

One of them shows a pillow plate from the collection of the German Textile Museum in Krefeld. Krefeld was once a centre of the silk industry in Germany and is thus also known as "Silk and Velvet City". Many of the textile companies had collections of textiles as illustrative material for the education of their employees, which were pooled at the end of the 19th century. From these beginnings the collection evolved into the German Textile Museum during the last century, which has now one of the most important collections of historic textiles in the World with pieces from all parts of the World ranging from the Antiquity until today. As many of the pieces can only be shown for the short time, the museum's exhibition is changed three or four times a year.

Two German flower definitives were used as postage: a Winter Aconite (issued 08-06-2017) and a Zinnia (issued 02-04-2020).

Thank You very much Marcel!