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Holiday homes
around Tilburg |
Tilburg is located in the southern
province of Noord-Brabant. The town hosts the famous 10 day-long
funfair, the largest of the Benelux, held in July each year.
Also interesting are the Tilburg winecity, Festipet streettheater,
the fleamarket Meimarkt and the Tilburg Ten Miles sportsgame
for runners. Tilburg was once the wool capital of the Netherlands.
The poor farmers living in the hamlets decided to stop selling
their sheepwool and to weave it themselves. Looms took up a huge
space in their already small houses. In the 17th century when
the number of looms in Tilburg was about 300, enterprising people
supplied the weavers with the raw materials for their "home
working" and the first Tilburg "millhouses" had
come into existence. From that point on, the wool- industry underwent
rapid growth and in 1881 Tilburg had as many as 145 woolmills.
Home weaving continued until the early years of the 20th century. |
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