TEXTIELMUSEUM Group Task

• History
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

welcome

Welcome at the Textielmuseum Tilburg.

Here you will go on a mission to learn more about industrial work in Brabant in the 19th and early 20th century.

You will spread in groups around the museum. You may need

• 1 person to have pen & paper to make notes
  
• 1 person to use a phone with this LessonUp 
  
• 1 person to use a phone with google translate
  

First, fill in the group members' names

The Steam Engine

Start group 1: Go to the Steam Engine

Take a look around. See how it works

 YOUR TASK

Watch the next 4 videos.

Find their location in the museum.

Then put the videos in the correct logical order.

1. What is the correct order of the videos?

1. B, A, C, D
2. D, B, A, C
3. B, D, A, C
4. A, C, D, B

James Watt

The first steam engines could only move something up and down. To turn this vertical motion into a rotary motion would make the steam engine much more useful.

The next video explains the fundamental mechanics of the steam engine as it was improved by James Watt in 1781.

2. Use the information from the video to explain how the Steam Engine in the museum can make a wheel spin around.
(Tip: switch subtitles on)

3. Explain why the machinist and the stoker were very important jobs in a textile factory

The Devil's Mill

Start group 2: Find this machine in EXHIBITION 2

(De Wollendekenfabriek)

4. Where does the name of this machine's function (duivelen) come from?

5. What were the two functions of working wool this way?
(choose 2 answers)

1. loosening the wool
2. mixing the wool
3. pulling the wool apart
4. spinning the wool

6. What was the function of the bascule?

7. Why was it necessary to mix wool from different bales ?

The Spinning Engine

Start Group 3: Find this machine in EXHIBITION 2

(De Wollendekenfabriek)

8. Explain the name "selfactor" for this machine and write down its function

9. Go to the Jacquard loom.
Describe Joseph Jacquard's invention.

10. What does a 'nopster" do?

1. put studs on workers' shoes
2. check woven cloth for mistakes
3. clean the machines
4. clean woven cloth

The Roughen Mill

(Ruwmolen)

Start Group 4: Find this machine in EXHIBITION 2

(De Wollendekenfabriek)

11. Why is it a strange name for this machine, considering its function?

12. Ask a member of staff about the working conditions of factory workers.
(men /women /children, wages, working hours, hygiene)

13. Ask a staff member about the dangers of working in this factory. What was the most dangerous machine? Why?

The "Mullekom" weaving machine

Start Group 5: Find this machine in the TEXTIELLAB

14. What is the "Mullekom"?

15. How many weaving machines can you find in this hall?

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6

Start Group 6: find this machine in the Textiellab

16. Ask a museum employee how much faster modern machines can weave cloth compared to weaving by hand and weaving with the machines driven by a steam engine.

17. This hall is about different textile disciplines. Write them all down.

18. What's the function of "twining"?

Start Group 7: Find this machine in the TEXTIELLAB

19. Explain the function of this machine.

20. What does this machine do?

21. Yarn is divided into three main groups. Which ones?

Jacquard Loom

Start Group 8: Find this machine in EXHIBITION 5

22. What is the main difference between the Jacquard loom in this hall and the one in the Exhibition 2?

23. What are the raw materials used to make damask?

24. Who would buy damask products mainly?

1. affluent women
2. housemaids of noble families
3. men working in the damask indusry
4. working class women

25. Write down three products that were made from damask.

finished?

Go back to the slide that says: START GROUP 1 and work your way through the slides and questions until you reach the slide you started with.

When you have done all questions and there is still time left, you can find a quiet place to work out the questions in proper English sentences. Remember, it's for a mark...

At the end, maybe you can evaluate this task in the final 2 slides. Thanks.

How would you rate this excursion?

1. waste of precious school time
2. boring, but still better than regular classes
3. rather interesting way of learning about this subject
4. great way of learning about this subject

Did you have enough time to finish the tour?

1. we had far more time than we needed
2. no, we did not have enough time
3. we had exactly enough time