The importance of textiles in contemporary societies has stimulated reflections on textile culture in antiquity. From the Upper Paleolithic until today, textiles are an essential part of everyday life and accompany people throughout their life course, conveying and symbolising their gender, age, religious beliefs, profession and status, and have done so in the past. TEXTaiLES will develop for the first time a complete technological and methodological ecosystem of data acquisition, restoration, and curation techniques that cover the whole lifecycle of the digitisation of textile archeological object.
Develop universal portable and affordable textile data acquisition, digitisation, restoration and curation techniques and integrated onto the ECCCH and that can be applied to any textile collection.
Facilitate large-scale, low-cost digitisation of textile based collections and deliver accurate 3D digital replicas accompanied by heterogeneous and multi-level information.
Enhance the understanding of our textile tradition by providing researchers, scholars and institutions with digital tools that will help them better collaboratively understand and safely study textiles.
Promote our textile tradition and history within and outside Europe (e.g. museum loaning of digitised very sensitive textile objects) and to highlight its cultural importance and increase its appreciation by the general public.