Preserving the past to serve the future : Lilli Zickerman’s inventory of textile handicrafts 1914–1931
(2023) Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences 2023 In Formakademisk 16(4).- Abstract
- Lilli Zickerman (1858–1949) was an entrepreneur who took part in organising the Swedish handicraft associations in the late 19th century. She was also a pioneer in the archives and active in the feminine sphere of textile handicraft. From 1914–1931 she conducted a huge inventory called Swedish Folk Textile Art that consists of more than 24,000 photographs and descriptions of vernacular textiles and manuscripts for a planned series of books and films. By mapping textile handicrafts, she aimed to preserve traditional textile craft techniques to inspire their continued production. Her intention was to create an archive for the inspiration and education of future textile artists. The inventory has had effects that are still apparent today;... (More)
- Lilli Zickerman (1858–1949) was an entrepreneur who took part in organising the Swedish handicraft associations in the late 19th century. She was also a pioneer in the archives and active in the feminine sphere of textile handicraft. From 1914–1931 she conducted a huge inventory called Swedish Folk Textile Art that consists of more than 24,000 photographs and descriptions of vernacular textiles and manuscripts for a planned series of books and films. By mapping textile handicrafts, she aimed to preserve traditional textile craft techniques to inspire their continued production. Her intention was to create an archive for the inspiration and education of future textile artists. The inventory has had effects that are still apparent today; this paper illuminates the ways in which Zickerman’s ideas about textile handicrafts have contributed to the continuation of Swedish cultural heritage and how it has become an authorised heritage discourse that continues to guide the scholars and practitioners involved in the history of textiles and their production. Here, we will present the first article within an ongoing project on Swedish Folk Textile Art and how it was conducted. We will contextualise the ideas and knowledge that it contains by focusing on Zickerman’s intention to preserve the past to serve the future. From a critical craft perspective, we will discuss geographical mapping as a method for investigating the inventtory; the inclusion and exclusion of geographical areas, textile techniques, materials and people; the ideas and the knowledge that are expressed in the inventory; and the networks that it created. By doing so, we aim to highlight the connections between people, between people and materials, and between history and the current day. (Less)
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- author
- Palmsköld, Anneli LU ; Gustavsson, Karin LU and Rosenqvist, Johanna LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-09-21
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Craft research, cultural history, craft history, Critical craft studies, craft archive, cultural historical inventories, craft knowledge, craft history
- in
- Formakademisk
- volume
- 16
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- FORMakademisk
- conference name
- Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences 2023
- conference location
- Mariestad, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2023-09-20 - 2023-09-22
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85172449208
- ISSN
- 1890-9515
- DOI
- 10.7577/formakademisk.5414
- project
- Det mjuka kulturarvet
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 4feb93dc-9afe-4a9f-9ef9-19ec801d7ded
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language = {{eng}},
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title = {{Preserving the past to serve the future : Lilli Zickerman’s inventory of textile handicrafts 1914–1931}},
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