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The current Museo del Traje dates from 2004. The museum, despite being a newly created institution, has a long and curious history. Its origin lies in the Historic Costume Exhibition, held in 1925. In the keynote address at this event, the Count of Romanones raised the idea of making the temporary exhibition permanent. Two years later he ...
Lampas with lion strangler, from a dalmatic of Saint Bernard Calvo from the Almoravid period. Almoravid and Almohad textiles were produced within parts of northwest Africa and Spain between 1058 and 1269 CE under the Almoravid (1050s–1147) and Almohad (1147–1269) caliphates.
The Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària, in English Textile and Clothing Museum, was a museum opened on 1982 and located in the Palau Reial de Pedralbes in Barcelona. [1] The museum possessed countless objects and pieces of major artistic and historical value that make up their collections of garments, fabrics and jewellery.
At the point of the loss of the American colonial market, in 1900, the Catalan textile industry represented 56.8% of total Catalan manufacturing production and 82% of total textile production in Spain. [83] Initially activity levels in the cotton industry fell drastically until 1903 and complicated by the general strike of 1902. [66]
In the 20th century, the industry had expanded to such a degree that such educational institutions as UC Davis established a Division of Textiles and Clothing, [95] The University of Nebraska-Lincoln also created a Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design that offers a Masters of Arts in Textile History, [96] and Iowa State University ...
Aurèlia Muñoz (1926–2011) was a Spanish textile artist. She is known for her tapestries and fiber sculptures. Muñoz was born in 1926 in Barcelona. [1] She attended the Escola Massana, Centre d'Art i Disseny. [2] She was part of the new era of textile art in the 1960s and 1970s. [3] [4]
Bender Jørgensen, Lise. 'Stone-Age Textiles in North Europe'. In Textiles in Northern Archaeology, Textile Symposium in York, North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles Monograph 3 (NESAT III). London Archetype Publications, 1990. ISBN 1-873132-05-0; Bennett, Wendell C. & Bird, Junius B. Andean Culture History.