Hand Made – Long Live Crafts
Photo’s by Lotte Stekelenburg for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. In the spring of 2013, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam hosted the exhibition
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Shetland Wool Week
Shetland Wool Week is an annual event created in 2009 celebrating “Britain’s most northerly native sheep, the Shetland textile industry and the rural
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Mingei Day: sharing knowledge of traditional crafts on international and local level
On March 10, Waag collaborated with several partners to host events in honour of what we have started calling Mingei Day. It included
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International webinar Mingei Day – Preserving heritage crafts using technology
How can we use technology to digitally preserve traditional and industrial crafts for the future? Heritage, museum, technological and craft professionals from all
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Online workshop Mingei Day in A’dam- Traditional textile crafts
On 10 March in the evening globally renowned fashion designer Antoine Peters, speaker of the evening, shares his passion for the craft of
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DigiTraining: Mingei Online Platform supports in representation of cultural heritage
The DigiTaining Project which will run until July 2022, responds to the urgent need for providing specific support to the cultural and creative
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Almost forgotten vocation of point paper designer continued in textile sector
An almost forgotten vocation in the textile sector is that of the point paper designer who, like the pattern designer, also has to
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In the Spotlight: The Artist Ioannis Stathoyiannis
The team of Mingei Project visited the solo exhibition of the artist Ioannis Stathoyiannis. This exhibition was held last Summer (July 2021) in
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Collaborative learning in digital heritage projects
During the RISE IMET conference on emerging technologies in museums and cultural heritage, Waag presented the approach for impact assessment and evaluation of heritage projects
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In the Spotlight: local Industry “Handmade Cretan Woven”
In the modern technologically dominated world, traditional arts and professions gradually tend to become extinct, as the vast majority of people prefer to
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