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2 January 2023

Textile research project 'The Fabric of My Life' presents stories about textiles for weaving the cultural fabric of Europe

Asking the image-generating AI DALL-E to create a view of the world map and migration routes in the style of an antique jacquard fabric, images like the one on this page are created showing naval objects, ships from different cultures and oceans. The picture appears like a snapshot of a busy traffic scenery between the continents. It could be used as a draft for a children's history book about the development of the world's cultures. The image generation is inspired by a recently published press release about a virtual museum about migration and textiles.

Image: Today, Fashion.at asked DALL-E to generate the image 'Antique jacquard fabric in bright colors showing a map of migration movements around the whole world'.


At the end of 2022, the German textile museum 'Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld' released stories about specific textiles, clothing, accessories that play an important role in the lives of people who left their countries and moved their home-base to other destinations in this world. The stories are part of the textile research project 'The Fabric of My Life'. The textiles are the red threads between the origin of the portrayed and the place of living. 'The Fabric of My Life', which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission for the support of cultural and linguistic diversity, is a collaborative project between research, museum and education institutions such as the Centre for Textile Research of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark or the Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld in Germany. (Details at ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-programmes-and-projects/the-fabric-of-my-life/.)

On deutschestextilmuseum.de/portfolio, it's possible to navigate to Textilmuseum Krefeld's stories about women and men, traditional textiles, clothing and accessories from ten countries via map. One of the stories is about a journalist who moved once from Japan to Germany to improve her language skills and works now for German and Japanese television.

At thefabricofmylife.com/podcasts-archive, audio files since January 2020 starting with 'Wax print fabric from Burkina Faso' can be listened to.

At the last mentioned website, users have the chance to participate in the project and join the weaving of the cultural fabric of Europe.



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