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Spain’s Royal Tapestry Factory has been providing clothes, called carpets for the floor and tapestries for the wall, for palaces and public buildings for more than 300 years. 

西班牙皇家挂毯工厂 300 多年来一直为宫殿和公共建筑提供服装，称为地板地毯和墙壁挂毯。

Found on a quiet street in Spain’s capital Madrid, its artisans combine long-held knowledge of the work with new methods to create cloth-based products. 

它位于西班牙首都马德里一条安静的街道上，工匠们将长期掌握的工作知识与新方法相结合，创造出以布料为基础的产品。 

The factory was opened in 1721 by Spain’s King Felipe V. He brought in Catholic artisans from Flanders, an area found in today’s Belgium, to get it started. At the time, the area had been under Spanish control. 

该工厂于 1721 年由西班牙国王费利佩五世 (Felipe V) 开设。他从佛兰德斯（位于今天的比利时境内）引进了天主教工匠来创办工厂。 当时，该地区已处于西班牙控制之下。 

Cloth like wool can be found in all colors in the factory. And tools like bobbins and spinning wheels are everywhere in the factory. Some of the original wooden machines are still in use. 

像羊毛这样的布料在工厂里可以找到各种颜色的。 工厂里到处都是线轴、纺车等工具。 一些原始的木制机器仍在使用。 

Alejandro Klecker de Elizalde is the factory’s general director. “Here the only products we work with are silk, wool, jute, cotton, linen,” he said. “And these small leftovers that we create, the water from the dyes, or the small pieces of wool, everything is recycled, everything has a double, a second use.”

Alejandro Klecker de Elizalde 是工厂的总经理。 “我们在这里合作的唯一产品是丝绸、羊毛、黄麻、棉花、亚麻，”他说。 “我们制造的这些小剩余物，染料中的水，或者小块羊毛，一切都被回收，一切都有双重用途。”

The factory also brings old pieces that have been damaged through time back to good condition. And it keeps some of the most important cloth and material records in Europe. 

工厂还将随着时间的推移而损坏的旧件恢复到良好状态。 它保留了欧洲一些最重要的布料和材料记录。 

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