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Textile terminologies and social networks
A case study from the Danish National Research Foundation’s
Centre for Textile Research
Outline of the presentation
• The diachronic terminology work at the Centre for Textile Research at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen
• The facebook and the blog - the successful tools of communication due to visual field
• Some examples o verbal and non-verbal representations of the concepts of craft, (ground) loom and weaving
CTR Workshop – Traditional Textile Craft- an Intangible Cultural Heritage – Amman 2014
• Definition of traditional craft-practices and the use of terminology
• The interdisciplinary dialogue and action between archeologists, anthropologists and the craft-practitioners
• The concept of craft
The CTR terminology work
• The terminology in a diachronic perspective in the projects of CTR
• Publications Ancient Textile Series Oxbow • Textile terminology conferences 2009, 2013,14 Website: ctr.hum.ku.dk/conferences
The concept of craft
• Multilingual approach to the concept:
• Håndværk, husflid (Danish)• Hemsloyd (Swedish)• Handwerk (German)• Handicraft (English)• Artisanat, Métier d’art (French)
Toth workshop 2013
• Verbal and non-verbal representations in terminology at CTR - Centre for Textile Research, Cph 8/11-14
• TEXTILNET.DK to be – to be launched January 2015
• Numerous contributors to the bestseller from CTR
- Textile terminologies I- Textile terminologies II (fortcoming
The loom
• Verbal and non-verbal representation of the concept – the tool
• Types of looms • Hand loom (produced in my family for
generations in DK)• Ground loom (the Bedouins carpet loom in
Jordan)
LERVAD loom
Ground Loom
Ground loom
• Drawing from the blog/website
The multilingual verbal description of the ground loom
• Handout (www.traditionaltextilecraft.dk)• Experts dialogue in a few weeks• Marketing tool for the Bani Hamida weavers
project at the Death Sea• Documentation of techniques and skills • (40.000) followers of the blog • Terminology /Photos/ Video
Concept system
• The ground loom and its part
• STORYTELLING naming the processes – • The grand mother parallel
• Teaching the future generations • Innovation and creative perspectives of the
tradition
Photos/Videos of the weaver at work
• Named weaver in the Bani Hamida project• Limits of the non-verbal representations• Characteristics : Function, shape and form
The result
CONCLUSION
• Network from Jordan established and ongoing work on the social media in order to document different craft practices at different places in the world.
• Turkish weavers report
Further information
• Center for textile research:www.ctr.ku.hum.dk
• Jordan blog/website: www.traditionaltextilecraft.dk
• Textilnet.dk: www.ctr.ku.hum/otherprojects.dk
