Textile Museum of Oaxaca

Textile Museum of Oaxaca is located in the estate of a former convent of Santo Domingo Soriano. Its building was built in the mid-sixteenth century - in 1529. However, its modern appearance it acquired a little later - after the reconstruction in 2007. Oaxaca Textile Museum building has two floors and was built in the Baroque style. In Oaxaca Textile Museum can learn the history of the emergence of the textile industry in Mexico. Here, the exhibits, the time of occurrence of which belong to the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries. Among them - the old loom, weaving products, the first Mexican property dealers who were selling textiles. Are stored in the museum and weaving machines, which were invented as early as the nineteenth century. Museum guides tell about the technology of staining of various tissues and reveal the secrets of their manufacture.