Europa Nostra Award ceremony

NOTE: Room changed to 4A.0.69.

In the spring, Dr Christina Margariti, former Marie Sklodowska Curie scholar with Marie Louise Nosch at CTR, Saxo Institute, received the prestigious Europa Nostra Prize for European Cultural Heritage. The FIBRANET project (Denmark-Greece) was one of 24 award-winning European projects in 2021.

And the project has now been further awarded, on 23 September at a prestigious ceremony in Venice, EU Commissioner for Culture Mariya Gabriel, awarded the four Grand Prix laureates for cultural heritage, and here FIBIRANET won again.

On this occasion, CTR and the Saxo Institute like to invite you to “Europa Nostra Award ceremony” on 24 November 2021. Dr Christina Margariti will present her project, afterwards, the award plaque will be unveiled at CTR, followed by a reception.

View the invitation as pdf.

 

The project investigated the fibres used in textile production in Europe from Prehistory to the Roman Empire and created a tool that can be used to aid European studies. The freely accessible database provides information on diverse textile fibres and is supported by bibliographical information and data on how these are affected in an archaeological burial context. This innovative research deepened knowledge in material analyses of ancient fibres. The Jury was impressed by this research project’s “clear and concise vision that yielded powerful and practical results”.

Fibre identification is very important for textile studies as it reveals socioeconomic information, evidence on past trade routes, palaeoenvironmental data and even sheds light to the technological development of the societies that produced and consumed the textiles. In the presentation Dr. Margariti will present her project that involved collecting textile fibres from across Europe as mentioned in ancient texts and contemporary publications; designed degradation experiments and studied their effects on the fibres’ morphology, attempting to decode degradation and use it to aid fibre identification. An online, freely accessible database was developed, including all outcomes of the research and making them available to peer professionals.