Ongoing Projects / Eurotex ID
| Project Acronym / Full Title: Eurotex ID - A Multidisciplinary collaboration to enhance the European Textile Identity |
| EU Programme: Culture Programme 2007/2013 - Co-operation measures (Strand 1.2.1) |
| Lead Partner: Museo del Tessuto di Prato, Italy |
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| Project duration: From 28/11/2008 to 28/11/2010 |
| Abstract: The main aim of Eurotex ID is to set up an initial interdisciplinary activity designed to rediscover and enhance the European textile industry of the 19th and 20th century, providing identification and valorization of European textile heritage; promoting long term cooperation among cultural, institutional and economic agents; encouraging creative reinterpretation processes and circulation of young artists and their project works. Starting the project, an overall selection, study and cataloguing of textile samples will be made, using textile archives from Prato and Terrassa Museums, and from Guimaraes. Textile samples catalogue will be then transformed into a digital database (EUROtex ID database), available for online consultation, providing specifications and details for items which, in turn, are highly representative of the production reality of their local territories of reference. Eurotex ID database will help young artists from design schools to get technical information about textile fabrics, but also to take inspiration in order to develop new design and products. Study and research on digital database will be coupled with specific courses on European Textile Heritage, within a close collaboration among textile museums experts and design schools professors. After the study and research phase, a selected group of 3 students from each design school will visit the local museums and industrial districts of Guimaraes, Prato and Terrassa. Study visits will allow students to get direct access to textile heritage, and to participate in inspiration workshops, helping them to creative re-interpreting of textile samples and to developing of new textile designs. Project works will be then realized using new designs inspired by textile samples previously catalogued. A final exhibition and a conference will take place, to show selected textile samples from museums, reinterpreting design and project works from design schools. |
| Other Info (Project Website, data base):
Eurotex ID website Eurotex ID data base |
| Contact Person: Filippo Guarini Tel. +39.0574.611503 E-Mail: f.guarini@museodeltessuto.it |
