TEXTaiLES – Textile Digitisation Tools and Methods for Cultural Heritage
A Horizon research project on the use of key digital technologies in the recording and visualisation of textile cultural heritage.Textile products and the crafts and traditions associated with them, as addressed by TEXTaiLES, hold a central and pivotal role in European history. Despite recent methodological advances in European textile research, digitisation of textile CH objects has not received sufficient attention.
This lack of attention can be attributed to the significant technical challenges posed by textile objects, mainly stemming from their soft and pliable nature, the minute scale of dimensions of their primary structure and the inherent sensitivity they exhibit to degradation agents.
TEXTaiLES’ mission is to employ key emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D digitization, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud/Edge Computing, Robotics, Digital Twins (DTs) to capture and visualise the visible and nonvisible characteristics of textiles in cultural heritage.
The project runs from 2025-2028 and is funded by the European Community as part of the Horizon Europe programme.
This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
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