Hanro collection
The Hanro collection includes the company archive of the former Liestal textile company Handschin & Ronus (Hanro). In 2015 the collection was donated to the canton of Basel-Landschaft and has been part of the “Archeology and Museum Baselland” collections at Museum.BL . The company specialized in the production and manufacture of high-quality knitwear (tricot) in the area of underwear and outerwear. The collection consists of a textile archive comprising around 20,000 individual items from 1900 and a file archive of around 750m since the founding years. It will be continued with selected files and objects of the current “Hanro of Switzerland” brand.
history
Carl Albert Handschin founded his first small knitting factory in Liestal in 1884 . From 1895 the company, which had grown considerably in the meantime, was run as a family business by the two eponymous families, Handschin and Ronus. For generations, «Hanro» produced knitted fabrics, clothing, nightwear and underwear, which were exported worldwide; a brand that combined quality and fashionable elegance. The company was a well-known part of the Swiss textile industry with its comfortably stretchy but dimensionally stable tricot material. The company was an economic, social and cultural factor in the Basel region and at times had up to 1,000 employees. In 1991 it was sold to Huber Holding AG ( Huber Tricot ) based in Götzis (A ), which continues the brand in the same segment.
Development of the collection
The Hanro collection was made accessible and inventoried in 2011–2014 by the “Verein Textilpiazza” on the former factory site. Parts of the textile archive can be viewed online via the KIM.bl association's cultural goods portal. The former company premises are being converted and have been made available to the current textile industry for several years via a private foundation. The Hanro collection is also maintained at its place of origin.
Textile and file archive
The textile archive includes the collection of documents relating to women's, children's and men's clothing from around 1900 to the present day. This in the areas of underwear, outerwear, homewear and nightwear, each with different terms and to different extents. In addition to the classic administrative files, there are files on the design and production process such as sample books, quality samples, film and photo material and sketches.
profile
Hierarchical according to scope:
- Advertising: advertising strategies, market analyzes, tens of thousands of advertising photographs on various carriers (prints in large and small formats in black and white and color, slides, stereo slides, negatives, contact prints, etc.) and at various process levels (prepress, retouching, sketchy Photography, photo shoot etc.). Occasionally from the 1930s, extensively from the 1970s to 2010s.
- Core financial files (budget, annual reports, debtors, creditors, etc.) since 1884, serial business documents
- Social policy: archival materials on social affairs from the pension fund to welfare foundations such as balance sheets and budgets, workers' directories, personnel files, job profiles and the associated services as well as documents on in-house training.
- Computerization : teaching aids, course documents, offers for computer systems, research projects, conference documents etc. for the implementation of information technology for manufacturing, sales and accounting.
Teaching and Research
The Hanro collection enables textile research in a wide variety of disciplines. The knowledge gained from research is an important basis for teaching, vocational training and communication in the museum.
- SNSF project “The modeled person: clothing as a cultural practice. The example of Hanro AG, 1884 to 2012 », 2014–2017
- Conference “Hanro Collection: Textile Collections in a Museum and Scientific Context”, 5. – 6. March 2015
- Various courses in cooperation with the Department of Cultural Studies and European Ethnology at the University of Basel , major: “Cultural Anthropology of Clothing”, since 2013
Exhibitions and guided tours
- "Beware! Hanro ». As part of the changeable permanent exhibition “Bewahre! What people collect. ”Museum.BL, until May 2016
- Guided tours through the exhibition and from November 2015 in the newly established collection depot
- Future exhibitions and depot tours will convey the regional industrial history to the public
literature
- Hanroareal GmbH (ed.): Hanroareal Liestal. A textile factory in transition. With texts by Barbara Buser, Kerstin Müller a. Tilo Richter, photographs v. Simone Berger u. Martin Zeller. Editions Denkstatt, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-9524556-2-3 .
Web links
- Hanro on the website of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
- Hanro collection in the online collection of the Museum.BL
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/basel/baselbiet/wertvolle-unterhosen-fuer-den-kanton-und-vieles-mehr-128744659
- ^ Kaspar Birkhäuser : Handschin, Carl Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Hanro. Liestal: 1973, Hanro SA
- ↑ http://archiv.textilpiazza.ch/hanro-sammlung ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.tageswoche.ch/de/2012_04/basel/384394/
- ↑ https://kgportal.bl.ch/sammlungen
- ↑ http://hanroareal.ch/
- ↑ https://www.baselland.ch/Sammlungen-Forschung.314896.0.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://kulturwissenschaft.unibas.ch/
- ↑ https://www.baselland.ch/Fuehrungen-und-Vortraege.315157.0.html
