Partners of the pilot project
Initial support
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Technical notes

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Partners of the pilot project and following routes / Partenaires du projet-pilote et des routes suivantes/ Partner des Pilotprojekts und folgender Routen

The pilot project (1999-2001)

	Organiser: ETN - European Textile Network, seat in Strasbourg
	Co-ordinator: ETN Secretariat/Ms Beatrijs Sterk, Hannover, e-mail: ETN@ETN-net.org
	1st co-organiser: NET Cultural Foundation/Mr Christian Grüßen, Brussels/Everberg
	2nd co-organiser: IRPUD - Institute for Spatial Planning/Ms Ingelore Pohl, University of Dortmund
	The participating museums:
		•	Crafts Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä/Finland Ms Seija Heinänen, director
		•	Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Wien/Austria Ms Margot Schindler, dr, assistant director
		•	German Museum of Technology, Berlin/Germany Ms Anna Döpfner, head of department
		•	German Textile Museum, Krefeld/Germany Ms Brigitte Tietzel, dr, director
		•	Municipal Museums of Antwerp, Antwerpen/Belgium Ms Elsje Janssen, head of collections
		•	Embroiderers' Guild, London/United Kingdom Mr Michael Stender, director
		•	National Costume Museum, Lisboa/Portugal Ms Madalena Braz Teixeira, director
		•	Textile Foundation of the Town of Chieri/Italy Mr Armando Brunetti, chairman
		•	Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana/Slovenia Ms Inja Smerdel, director
		•	Russian Ethnographic Museum (REM), St. Petersburg/Russia Ms Natalia Kalashnikova, head of department

The Northern Eifel Wool Route (2002)

Branch of Rhenish Museum of Industry at Müller Cloth Mill Mr Detlef Stender, dr, director

The Münsterland Cotton Route (2002)

Branch of Westphalian Museum of Industry at Bocholt Textile Mill Mr Hermann Josef Stenkamp, dr, director

The Wuppertal City Route (2002)

Kulturbüro Mr Reiner Rhefus

The "Bergisches Land" Textile Route (2003)

Netzwerk Industriekultur Bergisches Land e. V.

The Saxony Route (2003)

INNtex Innovation Netzwerk Textil e. V. Mr Franz Rudolph, prof, manager

The East Westphalia Route (2003)

Bielefeld History Museum, Ravensberg Spinning Mill Ms Cornelia Foerster, dr, director

The Lower Rhine Route (2003)

Textile Museum Foundation 'Die Scheune' and Niederrhein University, Mönchengladbach Branch Mr Walter Tillmann, Dipl.-Ing. textile engineer, and Mr Hans-Karl Rouette, prof., dr

The industrial heritage routes (2003)

	Organiser: tfs - Textile Forum Service, Hannover
	Co-ordinator: Ms Beatrijs Sterk, Hannover, e-mail: tfs@ETN-net.org
	1st co-organiser: Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya (mNACTEC), Terrassa
	2nd co-organiser: Museo del Tessuto, Prarto
	The participating museums:
		•	Science and Technology Museum of Catalonia, Terrassa/Spain Mr Eusebi Casanelles i Rahola, director
		•	Textile Museum, Prato/Italy Mr Emanuele Lepri, Secretary General
		•	Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz/Poland Mr Norbert Zawisza, director / Mr Jacek Wesolowski, architect
		•	Archaeocomp Association, Budapest/Hungary Ms Eszebét Marton, researcher
		•	Academy of Arts, Achitecture and Design, Prague/Czech Republic Ms Miroslava Krausová, assistant professor / Mr Pavel Kasparek, student
		•	Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava/Slovakia Ms Eva Cisárová-Mináriková, head of Textile Arts Studio
		•	Applied Art Museum, Tallinn/Estonia Ms Lea Pruuli † / Ms Merike Alber, director / Ms Kadri Viires, lecturer
		•	Museum of Decorative Applied Arts, Riga/Latvia Ms Velta Raudzepa, curator
		•	Kaunas Art Institute of VAA, Textile Department, Kaunas/Lithuania Ms Vita Geluniené, chief assistant
		•	Museum of Vojvodina, Ethnological Department, Novi Sad/Serbia Ms Bratislava Idvorean Stefanovic, curator
		•	Georgian Textile Group (GTG), Tbilisi/Georgia Ms Nino Kipshidze, president
		•	ETN-European Textile Network, Strasbourg/France Mr Dietmar Laue, architect

The Cyprus Route (2007)

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Initial support and following supporters / Support initial et supporteurs suivants/ Erstförderung und folgende Förderungen

The pilot project

European Union's Commission DG10, Raphael programme 1999, Action3.1: "Support for transnational cooperation projects between institutions/operators for the enhancement of and accessibility to the heritage"; duration 1999-2001

The Northern Eifel Wool Route
The Münsterland Cotton Route
The Wuppertal City Route
The "Bergisches Land" Textile Route
The East Westphalia Route
The Lower Rhine Route

Ministry of Town Planning & Housing, Culture & Sport of Northrhine-Westphalia, 2001/2002

The industrial heritage routes

European Union's Commission DG10, Culture 2000 programme 2002: One-year specific actions / Cultural heritage / Creation of virtual cultural itineraries in digital space, on themes of European cultural interest characteristic of a particular period

The Cyprus Route

The Cultural Services - Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, 2007 The Cyprus Tourism Organization, 2007

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Responsibility for the contents / Responsabilité pour le contenu / Verantworlichkeit für den Inhalt

The pilot project

	Overall concept: Ms Beatrijs Sterk, ETN Secretariat, Hannover
	Routes' texts and illustrations: the participating museums
	Website: Concept: Mr Dietmar Laue, ETN Secretariat, Hannover Technical structure: Buchdruck-Werkstätten, Hannover Modifications & execution: Mr Ralf Hoppe, ETN Secretariat
	Translations: English: Ms Susanne Mattern, Karben/D French: Ms Nicole Corbonnois, Longjumeau/F Deutsch: Mr Dietmar Laue, ETN Secretariat

The Northern Eifel Wool Route

	Texts: Detlef Stender & Martin Schmidt, Euskirchen Rhenish Museum of Industry
	Photos: Detlef Stender for Monschau, Bad Münstereifel and Euskirchen; Martin Schmidt for Stolberg and Breinig; Achim Bednorz for Aachen; German Institute for Wool Research for himself; Verviers Tourist Centre for Wool and Fashion for himself

The Münsterland Cotton Route

	Texts: Hermann Josef Stenkamp, Andreas Oehlke (Rheine), and Werner Straukamp (Nordhorn)
	Photos: WIM/Holtappels and Hudemann

The Wuppertal City Route

	Conception and texts: Stadt Wuppertal; Der Oberbürgermeister; Geschäftsbereich Kultur, Bildung und Sport
	Contact: Reiner Rhefus, Tel. +49-202/563 4332, e-mail: reiner.rhefus@stadt.wuppertal.de
	Photos: © Medienzentrum Wuppertal, Antje Zeis-Loi; © Medienzentrum Wuppertal, Assunta Windgasse; © Bandwirkermuseum Ronsdorf, Kurt Florian; © Fa. Shape 3 innovative Textiltechnik; © Fa. Kafka; © TTI GmbH; © Magma-Design

The "Bergisches Land" Textile Route

	Texts and maps: Mr Rüdiger Jordan, Düsseldorf
	Editing board: Dr. Christoph Heuter, Wuppertal; Dr. Jochem Putsch, Solingen; Dr. Wolfgang Vomm, Bergisch Gladbach (December 2002)
	Photos: The participating museums and Mr Michael Wittassek, Bergisch Gladbach (Fabrik Niedergaul, 2x Tuchmuseum Lennep); Dr. Christoph Heuter, Wuppertal (Aggertalsperre, Krawinkel Bergneustadt)

The Saxony Route

Texts and photos: Carsten Schulz-Nötzold and the participating museums

The East Westphalia Route

	Texts: Ms Stephanie Geissler, commissioned by the Bielefeld History Museum
	Photos: © A. Hudemann and M. Holtappels for monument pictures in Gütersloh, Bielefeld ,Herford and Oerlinghausen, the rest by the museums involved

The Lower Rhine Route

	Texts for the Viersen Flax Region: Mr Walter Tillmann, Dipl.-Ing. textile engineer; for Mönchengladbach: Mr Hans-Karl Rouette, prof., dr
	Photos: Mr Rainer Klenner

The industrial heritage routes

	Overall concept: Ms Beatrijs Sterk, tfs-Textile Forum Service, Hannover
	Routes' texts and illustrations: the participating institutions
	Website: Concept: Mr Dietmar Laue, ETN Secretariat, Hannover Webmaster: Mr Ralf Hoppe, tfs Secretariat
	Translations: English: Ms Susanne Mattern, Karben/D French: Ms Nicole Corbonnois, Longjumeau/F Deutsch: Mr Dietmar Laue, ETN Secretariat

The Cyprus Route

Texts and photos: Ms Julia Astreou-Christoforou

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Technical Notes / Indications techniques / Technische Hinweise

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