Specific objectives
The main objectives of this project are:
- to set up a European network of museums, fashion design schools, local authorities and textile companies with a view to enhancing and re-exploiting the local know-how of textile territories as means of facilitating the process of transition of European textile districts towards the knowledge-based economy;
- to establish the structural conditions necessary to extend European textile identity study and enhancement initiatives to other textile museums in Europe via the adoption of a standard European cataloguing system which may be used by all players, be they museums or textile companies still in business;
- to encourage new generations of designers to turn to museum collections for inspiration when designing textiles and items of clothing with a view to re-interpreting European textile traditions and exploiting the relative know-how according to a contemporary, creative approach.
- to confirm the concept of European citizenship and encourage intercultural dialogue via enhancement of the common features of the European industrial textile heritage;
