Dear Museum-Lers,


I wonder about your experience concerning a textile-revitalisation
iniciatives. Here I am preparing a sponsored effort to produce a
substantial number of hand weaving looms for home and small-scale
enterpreneurship utilisation, under the experts' guidance for looms' shape
and features. The plan is to disseminate looms without paying and under
contract obligation to weave at least one prescribed textile form (a
modern shape with traditional and historic properties) in first one-year
period. This products are intended to be gathered in souvenir market, and
from this moment on an individual gets in a possession of his loom, all
according to the contract, and approach future market demands.

The intention is to revitalise a souvenir market, save a fleece, intervene
in landscape with the flocks needed (and reduce wildfires, for example),
make old or retired persons self-respected, use our holdings through
hands-on inspection while considering techniques or ornaments, re-enter
the industrial and post-industrial (information) market with a proper
balance of the best pre-industrial practices (like natural substances,
dyeing), improve heritage management and tourism applications, and much
more.

It is possible to engage is such an effort because nearby watermills again
are active in felting, and we can use our new museum resources for weaving
instruction and education - like cloth-study room, living history persona
or multimedia files. My actual fieldscene is part of Dalmatia in Croatia,
Europe.

You will understand that I am interested in comparable efforts elsewhere.
Some valuable insights in a very rich Guatemala weaving scene are
reachable by Internet and in books, and I am eager to know more.

Thank you for your help & wish you nice holidays,
sincerely -

Jadran Kale,   M.A.,  curator ethnologist
Zupanijski muzej, P.p.7, HR-22001 Sibenik
Croatia: 385 (0) 22/ 213-880, fax 213-355
 @  http://jagor.srce.hr/muzej_sibenik
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