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Silk Images

A database with visual records of the Zurich silk industry.

Brief information

Status:

Completed

Period:

01.08.2015 - 31.12.2019

Overview

An important research area of the Competence Centre Products & Textiles is the historical assessment and documentation of the Zurich silk industry.

The corporate archives of the Zurich silk industry, which are examined in the research project

Silk History since 1800, contain a large number of visual sources. They range from advertisements, technical drawings and architectural plans to impressive representations of factories in Switzerland and abroad. The archives also contain images documenting the production of raw silk and silk textiles as well as work and leisure in the world of the modern factory. In order to decipher the material artefacts within these archives – especially the somewhat opaque pattern books –, all visual information pertaining to the design process is of special interest, i.e. design drawings, pattern books, mood boards and seasonal collection books.

In the course of the Silk Images project a representative part of this material is being selected, digitalized and catalogued in an image database. It will be put online together with the design database Silk Memory. The Silk Images database provides worldwide access to the vast visual landscape of the Zurich silk industry for professional researchers and the general public interested in the history of modern silks.

Seidenabteilung an der Schweizerischen Landesaustellung 1883 in Zürich , © Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Seideninspektor Hans Spörry im Kimono, Japan 1896, © © ETH Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv
Zürich, Seidentrocknungsanstalt, Postkarte um 1920, © ETH Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv
Zürich-Höngg, Seidenweberei, Luftaufnahme um 1918-1937, © ETH Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv
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Type of project

Forschung

Internal organisations involved
  • CC Products & Textiles
External project partner
  • KIM.bl (Kooperationsinitiative Museen Baselland)
External project funder
  • ZSIG Zürcherische Seidenindustrie Gesellschaft
  • Lotteriefonds des Kantons Zürich
Funding
  • Private / Stiftungen
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Links

  • Silk History since 1800

  • Silk Memory

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Persons involved: internal

Project manager
  • Monika Burri
Member of project team
  • Claudia Schmid
  • Alexis Schwarzenbach
  • Tina Tomovic

Brief information

Status:

Completed

Period:

08/01/2015 - 12/31/2019

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