Textile Museum - a branch of the National Polytechnic Museum, located in Sliven, in a building that is itself a cultural monument.

Manufacture of textiles - that is what a museum devoted entirely to the subjective. Being unique in its kind in Bulgaria, it covers an impressive amount of time - from ancient times to the present. The exposition is located in eight halls and turn the museum tells visitors about the appearance, development and achievements of all kinds of technology, engineering and textile machinery. Inspect the museum does not start from the first and from the second floor, because all the largest and most large-scale equipment and mills are located on the ground floor.

According to history, in the museum shows the factory and manual textile production, starting from the Neolithic era to the end of XIX century and then also from the XIX century to the 1970s.

The museum presents textile goods, attached to the vertical mill which dates back VII millennium BC. There is a special place for Reconstruction vertical loom, which was used by Bulgarian masters in the Neolithic period. In addition, it demonstrates the technique, equipment and technology, is actively used in crafts, home and manufactories: spindle and spinning wheel, weaving primitive forms samopryadki and spinning wheels and more.

A special place in the museum devoted to the history of European industrial revolution in 1733, when John Kay invented the mill together with the "flying shuttle". Another invention, which laid the beginning of a revolutionary technology and equipment, owned by Frenchman Joseph Jacquard, who in 1800 applied to the loom program. It was called "Machine Jacquard" and with the help of each warp yarn mill was managed independently. In Sliven museum contains one of these mills jacquard working so far. It allows you to verify the enormous value of this machine for weaving skills.

One room is designed to acquaint visitors with tkaneproizvodstvennymi crafts - from silk to braid, stamping and carpet weaving.

Specially prepared an exhibition devoted to the history of life Dobri Zhelyazkova, who is considered the founder of modern textile production in Bulgaria.