The Textile Museum dedicated to M. Ginetto is divided into different sections which offer a complete overview of the sector which for a long time represented the main economic item for Leffe. On display is a section regarding silk processing, with a circular silk twisting machine from the late 1700s with a diameter of m. 4.5 coming from the Leffe spinning mill. A unique machine in the history of the textile industry because it had a technological lifespan of at least seven centuries starting from its appearance in Lucca in the 13th century until the last examples in 1935. Leonardo da Vinci also contributed to improving its efficiency and the Museum has reproduced some intuitions, such as the “zetto”, contained in the Forster Codex and the Madrid Codex. To integrate the exhibition there is also a gigantic oak wooden wheel, a water-powered tool for the ancient twisting mill, and a space dedicated to the evolution of looms: from the typical medieval one characterized by the throwing of the shuttle by hand, to the loom with the “flying shuttle”, two hand looms with wooden Jacquard machines up to a mechanical dobby example from the beginning of the 1900s. There is also no shortage of control and measurement instruments such as dynamometers, torque meters, precision scales, reeling machines as well as with rowing wheels and rowing wheels. Finally, of particular interest are a 12-fin wheel twisting machine from 1750 and a Japanese hand-operated one dating back to 1800.
