Joala factory: from the basement to the tower

The history of Krenholm textile factories can be considered as an ideal guide to the study of the world textile industry of the 19th and 20th centuries: dizzying economic ups and downs, unprecedented scale of production for Estonia and fateful partnership agreements, the construction of an entire textile city around factory buildings and incredible stories of the workers who happened to be here by the will of fate.

We will tell you all about this during our new tour, which takes place inside the Joal factory, a red–brick building with breathtaking views from the tower. Being one of the last closed in the Krenholm complex, the Joala factory has preserved the atmosphere of the enterprise in the best way: the hum of spinning machines that has been frozen up in the walls, the steps still remember hundreds of feet running up and down ….