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Overview
Industrial Heritage Routes
Introduction:
The rise and structural change of textile production in Europe
Time
Table: The technological development of textile
production in Europe
| The complete title of this one year project is "Virtual Routes to sites and artefacts from times of industrialisation in Europe, on the example of textile heritage". The Project is supported in the frame of "Culture 2000" of the European Commission and is on show from on June 2003. |
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 This project has been carried out with the support of the European Community. The content of this project does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Community, nor does it involve any responsibility on the part of the European Community. |
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 The Scheibler Mill "Ksiezy Mlyn" in Lodz, Poland |
Thanks to the support of the European Commission with means from the Culture 2000 programme, it was possible to develop initially ten and finally eleven virtual model routes covering architecture, and art and design collections from the industrial period in Europe, in the year between June 2002 and June 2003. The project coordinator was Textile Forum Service, supported by two co-organisers from archetypal industrial regions in Spain (Terrassa) and Italy (Prato), as well as eight partners from Central and Eastern Europe. They addressed cultural aspects of regional development, making them available to the public in an exemplary way, and invited further textile-industrial regions to join. At the same time new contacts were made to promote further cooperation with central and eastern European countries.
Organisers
| 1) | Project leader: Textil Forum Service, Hannover/Germany, represented by Beatrijs Sterk (Dutch nationality), owner of the publishing house, former ETN President and - since 1997 - ETN's General Secretary |
| 2) | First co-organiser: Museu de la Cičncia i de la Tčcnica de Catalunya, represented by Director Eusebi Casanelles, a.o. TICCIH President, in co-operation with the Centre de Documentació i Museu Tčxtil de Terrassa/Spain, represented by Director Eulŕlia Morral, a.o. UNESCO contact person for Spain |
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Second co-organiser: Museo del Tessuto in Prato/Italy, represented by Emanuele Lepri, Secretary General; this museum is the cultural heritage centre for the textile region around Prato and other centres in Tuscany |
Initial partners
| 4) | European Textile Network (ETN) with seat in Strasbourg/France (currently with its secretariat in Hannover); ETN is owner of the Textile Routes website and carrier network for textiles in the Council of Europes' Cultural Itineraries programme. |
| 5) | Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz/Poland, represented by Director Norbert Zawisza; this museum of textile industry represents textile-industrial heritage in Poland, especially regarding the Lodz textile region |
| 6) | Cultural Heritage Directorate/ARCHAEOCOMP in Budapest/Hungary, represented by Ms Erzsébet Marton; ARCHAEOCOMP is an association providing training for museum staff and database service |
| 7) | Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague/Czech Republic, represented by Ms Ludmila Kybalová, publicist in arts & crafts |
| 8) | Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava/Slovakia, represented by Professor Eva Cisarova-Minariková |
| 9) | Museum for Applied Art in Tallinn/Estonia, represented by Ms Lea Pruuli, curator |
| 10) | Museum of Decorative Applied Art in Riga/Latvia, represented by vice-Director Velta Raudzepa |
| 11) | Art Institute of VAA in Kaunas/Lithuania, represented by Ms Vita Gelüniene, Chief Assistant |
| 12) | Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad/Sebia, represented by Ms Bratislava Idvorean Stefanovic |
| 13) | Georgian Textile Group (GTG) in Tbilisi/Georgia, represented by Ms Nino Kipshidze, art historian; this association's members are historians, lecturers and artists/designers who are organising a bi-annual international symposium on the theme of Caucasian Textile Routes at the Tbilisi Silk Museum |
More Industrial Routes Projects
The European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH), including a Textile Route http://www.erih.net
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