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Gessner@Silk Memory

A project coordinating the cataloguing of textile and visual sources pertaining to the Zurich silk industry.

Brief information

School:

Design, Film and Art​

Status:

Completed

Period:

01.01.2015 - 31.12.2016

Overview

The project Gessner@Silk Memory is part of a larger silk research cluster at the Competence Centre Products & Textiles at Lucerne University. All projects in this cluster concern themselves with the assessment and documentation of the Zurich silk industry.

The aim of Gessner@Silk Memory is the systematic sighting and selection of textile and visual material from the large corporate and textile archives of the Gessner weaving mill at Wädenswil. Sources are being catalogued and stored in the design database Silk Memory and the image database Silk Images.

The textile patterns are selected from Gessner’s furnishing department, an area of production previously lacking in the Silk Memory database.

Another aim of the project is to evaluate and specify selection criteria for visual sources in order to establish a working routine and lay down rules for their electronic storing and cataloguing.

A key research question concerns the simultaneous integration of information about textile patterns, production details and visual material in a database that can be accessed online.

Archiv der Firma Gessner AG in Wädenswil, © HSLU D&K, CC Produkt & Textil
Stoffmuster aus dem Archiv der Firma Gessner AG in Wädenswil, © HSLU D&K, CC Produkt & Textil
Modeschau im Websaal der Seidenweberei Gessner, 1960er Jahre, © Gessner AG, Wädenswil
Zettlerei, Seidenweberei Gessner in Wädenswil, ca. 1965 © Foto Langendorf Wädenswil , © Fotograf Michael Wolgensinger, Zürich
Georg-Fischer-Maschinen im Websaal der Firma Gessner AG, Wädenswil, © Georg Fischer AG, Schaffhausen
Luftaufnahme Seidenweberei Gessner, © Gessner AG, Wädenswil
Musterbuch aus dem Firmenarchiv der Seidenweberei Gessner in Wädenswil, © HSLU D&K, CC Produkt & Textil
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Facts

Type of project

Forschung

Internal organisations involved
  • CC Products Textiles
External project partner
  • Gessner AG
External project funder
  • ZSIG Zürcherische Seidenindustrie Gesellschaft
Funding
  • Private / Stiftungen
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Links

  • Silk Memory

  • Silk Images

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Persons involved: internal

Project manager
  • Monika Burri
Project Co-Head
  • Tina Tomovic
Member of project team
  • Julia Kolb
  • Tina Moor
  • Alexis Schwarzenbach
  • Andrea Weber-Hansen
  • Roman Wild

Brief information

School:

Design, Film and Art​

Status:

Completed

Period:

01/01/2015 - 12/31/2016

Project Co-Head

Tina Tomovic

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+41 41 248 61 83

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