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Introduction
The European Textile Routes will be continuously enlarged
Routes will not only be expanded by cities, regions and countries but also by Textile Contact Points (TCPs), individual stations and new themes.
All those interested in participating in the Network of Route Stations are invited to do so (--> Conditions of Participation).
Moral and financial support
In the late Eighties, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg developed the basic idea of European Cultural Routes, establishing some initial routes that included a Silk Route.
In 1993 the European Textile Network (ETN) was nominated Carrier Network
by the Council of Europe for textile routes.
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 VETHSI project group in front of Burg Linn in Krefeld; coorganisers and paticipants from nine countries |
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 The project group "Industrial Heritage Routes" in the powerstation of the Museum of Science in Terassa, Spain |
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Expansion by new themes
With regard to the European Textile Routes' programme, it is expected
that further carriers of textile culture, e.g. institutes, societies,
associations or professional, leisure, school and university interest
groups, will join the group of initiators and establish specific Textile
Contact Points (TCPs) in the fields of "contemporary cultural production"
and "education/research".
Ideally a dense European Routes Network will be created over the course
of the next few years and decades, linking sources and addresses of
textile cultural heritage to places of production in art, the crafts
and industry. This will mean that the creative powers that exist in
the European regions will find more support for their professional and
non-professional careers.
Mutual
communication of information
Each Textile Contact Point will provide information to the public both
on its own regional textile network and the other networks within the
European Textile Routes. This will be achieved by means of Internet technology,
linking all Route stations to each other in the best possible way.
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