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Dictionary of historical terms for dress and textiles

CTR collaborates with The Danish Costume Group

(De danske museers dragtpulje)
which is supported financially by the Ministry of Culture’s Department for the protection of Cultural Heritage.
More information: www.dragt.dk.

A dictionary of historical terms for dress and textiles: textilnet.dk (2010-2015)
Since 2004 The Danish Costume Group has been working with terminology of dress and textiles in a historical perspective from 1600 till the present time.
From 2010 CTR has joined this collateral project undertaken by Else Østergård, Maj Ringgaard, Kirsten Leer, Karin Grønning, Inge-Margrethe Davidsen, Anne Hedeager Krag. Ingeborg Cock-Clausen Susanne Lervad and project leader Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen, Den Gamle By, National Open Air Museum of Urban Culture.  The research project collects and qualifies terminology from many different historical sources.

Plans an perspectives for textilnet.dk 2010-2015

Vision: to publish an authoritative dictionary of terminologies/words related to historical dress and textiles, their production, consumption and symbols, with thorough definitions from 1600 to the present and photos and other illustrations of the dress and textiles in question on the internet.

Mission:

1. Collecting all words/terminologies possible and qualifying their meanings
2. Publishing illustrations of all relevant examples from The Danish Cultural Heritage

Partners:

CTR: Susanne Lervad, Maj Ringgaard, Marie-Louise Nosch

Dansk Sprognævn: direktør Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen

Dansk Grundforsknings Center for Sociolingvistiske Sprogforandringer: Inge Lise Petersen

Private company Termplus Aps http://www.termplus.dk/

Project leader: Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen, textile curator, Den Gamle By, National Open Air Museum of Urban Culture

Plans

Analyzing terminologies/words collected by researchers Erna Lorenzen (1909-2006), Margrethe Hald (1887-1992), Ellen Andersen (1888-1889) and texts (fiction, poetry and specialized) collected by member of the group Else Østergård and others and evaluating them with words from other sources such as historical catalogues for goods from the 18th and 19th Century, the handwritten 17th dictionary by Mathias Moth and various encyclopedias.

Joint fundraising for these purposes.