Future Textile

8 textile and fashion students from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway joined this years ETT program. The ETT program is collaboration between the Audax Textiel Museum in the Netherlands, the textile industry in Como, Italy and different European schools. It is still a pilot project and this is the third year it has been arranged.

I am a second year student at the textile studies at KHiB and has been lucky to have the opportunity to participate in the ETT program.
We spent 5 weeks at the Audax Textiel Museum in Tilburg. This year’s theme was sustainability, a challenging and important issue in today’s society and in the textile field. One of the first day we where present at the academic opening of the Design Academy of Eindhoven, where the theme was sustainability and among the speakers Michael Braungart, founder of Cradle to Cradle. During the period we also had other lectures on sustainability, useful for an insight in the issue.

The first weeks were spent on technical introductions; we were lucky to get a two days workshop with Jon Pettersen with an introduction to Jaquard weaving and construction. We also had a day with handweaving with Joost Prost to learn more about bindings and possibilities.
7 and a half days were spent in the Textiel Lab during the 5 weeks, working together with the product developers in each area. I got experience from knitting, weaving, laser, digital printing, embroidery and passement. Having the whole Textiel Lab at our disposal made it easier for us to mix different techniques and explore the possibilities in that.
Under are some photos from the Textiel Lab in Tilburg and from the final presentation.

A month  ago two students from kunsthøgskolen i bergen, with another 6 students from diferent textile unversites in Europe start the European Textile Trainee 2009  in Tilbrug Nederland.

The ETT program this year included five weeks at Audax Textile museum in Tilburg where the students could used the facilits of The textilelab at the museum. At the textilelab the students work with weaving in thejacquard loom, knitt with the must moderen machins, laser cutting, digital printing and passement.

Elin Egland and Kiyoshi Yamamoto was representing the school on this project they both are students from the specialise arts departments and textile students in the five weeks both were working inspired butt he nature and the sorounds.

The final periode in Tilburg was presented last weekend where are students present they resersh and thinking about  the period at the lab.

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Første uka i Italia deltok vi på Settimana della Creativita; the Comon-week. En uke med 40 design, kunst og tekstil-studenter samlet fra hele europa. Målet med arangementet er å presentere Comos tekstil-industri for neste generasjon tekstildesignere. Uken besto i seminar med Li Edelcoort, showroom-besøk hos Gucci, Jean Paul Guiltier og Alberta Feretti, besøk i tekstilarkivet hos The Antonio Ratti Foundation, besøk hos tekstilprodusenter, m.m.

De neste 6 ukene jobber vi som trainees  hos hvert vårt firma innen tekstilproduksjon.

Elin jobber hos Clerici Tessuto.

De produserer tekstil, både vev og print, noe til interiør, men mest til til fachion, som f.eks Prada, Chanel, Donna Karen o.l.

På kontoret jeg er jobber to hoveddesignere; Roberto og Clara Fantoccoli, Everlyn; trainee fra Paris, og meg selv fra Kunsthøyskolen i Bergen.


Hverdagen består i å gjøre research for de neste koleksjonene, møte kunder sammen med Fantoccoli, og generelt få et innblikk i hvordan tekstil produksjon fungerer.

Kiyoshi jobber hos Taroni, som gjør tekstilproduksjon for haute coture.

www.comon-co.it: http://www.comon-co.it/
www.clericitessuto.it:  http://www.clericitessuto.it/
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www.taroni.com:  http://www.taroni.com/

  Showroom hos Taroni.

This is a program where talented designers will be given the opportunity to follow a trainee programme, including the use of the available facilities of the participating textile institutes. The essence of a trainee programme is that it offers a course of ‘working and learning’.

Per working period a part of the time is devoted to mastering the materials and production techniques. At the same time the trainees are expected to avail themselves of the opportunity to work on design projects related to the theme ‘Quality?.

The international character of this trainee programme will enable the participants to undergo a considerable development in the field of textile and design within a short period.

Partners in this Pilot are:

• Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg in collaboration with Design Academy Eindhoven.
•  School of Design, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
• National Academy of Arts Bergen, Norway
• Hochshule fur Kunst und Design Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany
• COMO Textile institutes, Servizi Industriali Srl., UICOMO, Como, Italy

First working period
September 8 till October 9; working period in the Netherlands.

Second working period
October 11 till November 27, eight trainees are going to Italy to work together with the Como textile Industry. Organised by Servizi Industriali Srl., UICOMO.

We have to participants from Bergen: Elin and Kiyoshi.

Jeanett Goodwin presenting her works 

The nine students from each of the three academies presented their work and their experience from the ETT-program at the Audax textile museum in Tillburg. Ane W. Goddal, Jeanette Goodwin, Hilde Frantzen represented KHIB in this pilot project. You can read about their experiences from Tillburg, Helsinki and Como under Topics: European textile trainee.

More pictures from the ETT seminar:

Jeanett Goodwin: digital weaving project

Jeanett Goodwin: digital weaving project: detail

From the exhibition at the Audax textile museum in Tillburg

From the exhibition at the Audax textile museum in Tillburg

From the exhibition at the Audax textile museum in Tilburg

Hilde Frantzen: printed fox collar

Ane W. Godal: printed fabric

From the exhibition at the Audax textile museum in Tilburg

Teachers and students participating in the evaluation seminar