From flags to canopies, tapestries, furniture, bride clothing, traditional attire, etc., silk is found in countless historical contexts. Besides, it is also a multifaceted living heritage, beyond the textiles themselves, involving designers, weavers, engineers, painters, and merchants, among many others. Although the Silk Road is often associated with its Asian origins, its European ramifications were fundamental for the construction of today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n
This commercial and cultural connection extended throughout several centuries, allowing the exchange of goods and techniques, but also of ideas, religions, fashions, and arts at large. Such a space for exchange influenced the development of peoples and cities along its routes, leaving traces and influences in each of them, building a common and shared history. European silk heritage is linked to history, sociology, technology, and the arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From flags to canopies, tapestries, furniture, bride clothing, traditional attire, etc., silk is found in countless contexts. Besides, it is also a multifaceted living heritage, because it involves more than the textile itself, around it there are designers, weavers, painters, etc. Although the Silk Road is often associated with its Asian origins, its European ramifications were fundamental for the construction of today’s Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The European Silk Heritage is linked to history, sociology and cultural production. It also underlined as an artistic connection. A fluid exchange that influenced the development of each productive points.<\/p>\n
The commercial and cultural connection, liaised Europe for several centuries thanks to the exchange of goods and techniques, but also of ideas, religions, trends, which have been going through the diverse routes and trading ports, leaving traces and influences in each of them, building a common and shared history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/about.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving-europe.silknow.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}