Major part of the textile collection is represented by exhibits from the textile pavilion at the Jubilee exhibition of the Trade and Business Chamber in Prague held in 1908. The collection was extended quite rapidly and its diversification into the following sections was gradually established: textile natural and synthetic raw materials, spinning instruments and machines, manual and mechanical looms, hand weaving, dyeing and printing of cloths, sewing machines, production of pins and needles. Most of exhibits of the textile collection date back to the period before the World War II. The collection contains objects from all basic fields of textile production within the time span from manual via manufacture to industrial textile production.
The collection is currently divided into textile materials and sewing technique. The textile part includes exhibits of spinning, weaving, knitting, processing, testing, fetching raw materials and special textile techniques. The part of sewing technique comprises sewing machines and related devices. The collection of textile production contains about 1200 exhibits, of which one quarter are objects of textile technique.