Silk: The dream fabric
Pure silk, one of the oldest known natural fibres, is still highly fashionable even after thousands of years. This beautiful and elegant
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NEWS & EVENTS
Multidisciplinary collaboration in reproducing a glass carafe
As part of the Mingei project, the Musée des Arts et Métiers is making a copy of a carafe dated in 1842,
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“Tradition Meets Trend” at the Silk Museum
Chinese silk has a history of five thousand years. The unique techniques used, the vivid colours and its fascinating history have all
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Digitizing crafters’ motions by ARMINES
Within the Mingei project, state of the art technology is used to preserve and represent traditional crafts. By digitizing processes, we can
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New richness at the museum: AR & VR apps
Digitisation of cultural heritage turns Europe’s cultural resources into an important pillar of the digital economy. The EU Work Plan for Culture
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Mingei’s consortium meeting & activities on Chios
From 9 to 13 September 2019, PIOP welcomed all partners to the Mingei Consortium Meeting onChios, Greece, where the Mingei pilot on
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The creation of virtual avatars
Part of Mingei’s digitization process is the creation of virtual avatars that represent the craftsmen and the intangible elements of heritage crafts.
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On the name of the Mingei H2020 project
Mingei is the name of an art movement developed in the late 1920s in Japan by Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), and as a
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The power of co-creation
To digitise and transfer knowledge about the (in)tangible aspects of crafts; that is the goal of our European project Mingei. Already from
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Mingei Crafts Ontology by CNR
The Mingei project aims to digitise and represent knowledge about the (in)tangible aspects of heritage crafts (HC). When we talk about knowledge representation,
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