Textile Museum St. Gallen
The St. Gallen Textile Museum and Textile Library are located in the “Palazzo Rosso”, built in 1886 in the old town of St. Gallen .
history
The “Commercial Directorium” - the association of St. Gallen merchants - has been collecting templates for Swiss textile producers around the world since 1863 . In 1878 the foundation was the industrial and commercial museum , which moved into the museum building in the Vadianstrasse 1886th In the course of time, the collection was expanded through purchases, but above all through donations from important private collections and archives of the textile industry.
The collections of the Textile Museum and the St. Gallen Textile Library follow the tradition of the trade museums and sample collections that were founded across Europe at that time. The house is still committed to this fundamental idea of being a source of inspiration for designers and designers. The museum has meanwhile become one of the most important Swiss centers for questions relating to textile production. Textiles, costumes, sample books , design drawings , fashion photographs and drawings trace the history of the industry from its beginnings to the present.
Collections
The house is especially famous for its exquisite collections of Eastern Switzerland hand and machine embroidery, late antique textiles from Egypt, European lace from the Netherlands, Italy and France, of fabric prints and of embroidery and fabrics from the Middle Ages to the present from all over Europe. A selection of objects in the collection can be called up via an online database.
Library
The building also houses the textile library. In the cupboards in the library there are thousands of sample books with textile samples from Swiss companies. The over two million originals document the machine embroidery of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the heyday of the St. Gallen embroidery industry . Fabric printing and weaving are also represented with numerous, excellent examples. There are also fashion photographs and illustrations, nature studies, wallpaper samples and design drawings. The library also contains publications on the subject of textiles and related areas from design, art and cultural history.
Exhibitions
In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are also ongoing special exhibitions that deal with historical and modern textile production as well as textile art. Based on their own collection, the exhibitions show international references, dependencies and special creative developments in Swiss textile production beyond the geographic area of Switzerland.
See also
literature
- Ursula Karbacher (arrangement): Textiles. Textile Museum St. Gallen; House and collections. VGS, St. Gallen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7291-1115-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '24.2 " N , 9 ° 22' 24.9" E ; CH1903: 745 990 / 254309