Museo del Tessuto (Prato)
Museo del Tessuto (Prato)
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Via Santa Chiara, 59100 Prato PO, Italy
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Founded in 1975 around a primary nucleus of material, then enlarged and moved to a wing of the former Cimatoria Campolmi, a typical and evocative example of industrial archeology, the Textile Museum is today one of Europe’s most important exhibition and study centers in the field of textile culture and related sectors, with 240 square meters of exhibition space.
The structure brings together numerous collections of different origin, acquired through bequests, donations, and purchases and featuring material evidence like the sample collections of important, historic woolen industries in the district and more than 6000 samples of textiles datable from the pre-Christian era down to our day, acquired from all over the world.
This broad repertory documents every possible technique, including arras, rugs, printing, lace, and embroidery; the institution also preserves church vestments and furnishings, passementerie, an interesting collection of costumes dating from the 18th through the 20th century, technical and figurative drawings, and machinery and hand-operated and mechanical textiles tools from the 1500s to the present, essential for reconstructing the ancient weaving methods.
Following a section providing an introduction to recognition of the fundamental types of fibers and understanding of their production, the visitor comes to the historical section, where selections of archaeological and ancient fabrics (Etruscan, Roman, Coptic, Islamic, and Peruvian) and 18th- and 20thcentury ethnic textiles are exhibited on a rotation basis together with the extremely rich main body of the collection, consisting of European and Oriental samplings dating from the 14th to the 18th century and 19th- and 20th-century production featuring pieces designed and signed by such artists as Dufy, Giò Ponti, and Henry Moore. The contemporary section, instead, follows the steps of the highly dynamic relationship between textiles and present and future production: beginning with the Prato Expo trend samples from 1982 through the present and going on to true advance showings of the new collections by Prato’s industries. The section spotlights above all the most technologically and/or aesthetically advanced work now going on in the territory.
Every year, the museum proposes a program of important exhibitions on varying themes, both historic and contemporary, that testify to the richness and vivacity of its textile and fashion studies and its fruitful contacts with other international museum centers. Via Santa Chiara, 24 - Prato
T 0574 611503
Info e prenotazioni tel. 0574 611503
info@museodeltessuto.it
www.museodeltessuto.it
museums
Via Santa Chiara, 59100 Prato PO, Italy
Show on map
Founded in 1975 around a primary nucleus of material, then enlarged and moved to a wing of the former Cimatoria Campolmi, a typical and evocative example of industrial archeology, the Textile Museum is today one of Europe’s most important exhibition and study centers in the field of textile culture and related sectors, with 240 square meters of exhibition space.
The structure brings together numerous collections of different origin, acquired through bequests, donations, and purchases and featuring material evidence like the sample collections of important, historic woolen industries in the district and more than 6000 samples of textiles datable from the pre-Christian era down to our day, acquired from all over the world.
This broad repertory documents every possible technique, including arras, rugs, printing, lace, and embroidery; the institution also preserves church vestments and furnishings, passementerie, an interesting collection of costumes dating from the 18th through the 20th century, technical and figurative drawings, and machinery and hand-operated and mechanical textiles tools from the 1500s to the present, essential for reconstructing the ancient weaving methods.
Following a section providing an introduction to recognition of the fundamental types of fibers and understanding of their production, the visitor comes to the historical section, where selections of archaeological and ancient fabrics (Etruscan, Roman, Coptic, Islamic, and Peruvian) and 18th- and 20thcentury ethnic textiles are exhibited on a rotation basis together with the extremely rich main body of the collection, consisting of European and Oriental samplings dating from the 14th to the 18th century and 19th- and 20th-century production featuring pieces designed and signed by such artists as Dufy, Giò Ponti, and Henry Moore. The contemporary section, instead, follows the steps of the highly dynamic relationship between textiles and present and future production: beginning with the Prato Expo trend samples from 1982 through the present and going on to true advance showings of the new collections by Prato’s industries. The section spotlights above all the most technologically and/or aesthetically advanced work now going on in the territory.
Every year, the museum proposes a program of important exhibitions on varying themes, both historic and contemporary, that testify to the richness and vivacity of its textile and fashion studies and its fruitful contacts with other international museum centers. Via Santa Chiara, 24 - Prato
T 0574 611503
Info e prenotazioni tel. 0574 611503
info@museodeltessuto.it
www.museodeltessuto.it