The ConferenceFrom 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 aredesigners, weavers, painters, etc. Although the Silk Road is often associated with its Asian origins, its Europeanramifications were fundamental for the construction of today’s Europe.

The European Silk Heritage is linked to history, sociology and cultural production. It also underlined as an artisticconnection. A fluid exchange that influenced the development of each productive points.

The commercial and cultural connection, liaised Europe for several centuries thanks to the exchange of goods andtechniques, 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.

OrganizersThis conference is organized by SILKNOW, a research H2020 European funded project, whose principal goals chase the conservation, spreading and protection of silk heritage.

Aims-GoalsThe aim of this international conference is to spread today’s research about historic fabrics together with the lasttechnology applied to cultural heritage. The forum would merge professionals from different scopes as museums,tourism, creative industries, innovative hubs, universities, etc. where heritage & technology would be the junctionpoints.

This international conference aims at spreading recent research about historical silk fabrics, together with thelatest technology applied to cultural heritage. The forum will merge professionals from different sector, such asmuseums, tourism, creative industries, innovative hubs, universities, etc. where heritage and technology are ashared interest.

The conference will also foster a collaborative code of practices to promote the defense and safeguarding oftextile heritage.

Finally, it also disseminates methodologies on cataloguing and inventorying that will increase the cooperationamong institutions, in order to share their data and provide open access to it.

Target AudienceResearchers and professors from the academic area, undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. students; privatebusiness related to tourism, creative industries, art crafts and traditional industry; fashion professionals andbusiness-related to the silk industry.

Scientific Committee• Ester Alba Pagán . Universitat de València• Ricardo Franch Benavent. Universitat de València• Maurizio Vitella. Università de Palermo• Gemma María Contreras Zamorano. IVACOR• Dunja Mladenić. Institut Jozef Stefan• Inmaculada Coma Tatay. Universitat de València• Javier Sevilla Peris. Universitat de València• Pierre Vernus. Centre National de la Recherche

Scientifique –Université Lumière Lyon II • Franz Rottensteiner. Gottfried Wilheim Leibniz Universitaet• Marie-Véronique Leroi. Chargée de mission Web

sémantique, Ministry of Culture, France• Raphaël Troncy. EURECOM

Organizing Committee• Ester Alba Pagán . Universitat de València• Jorge Sebastián Lozano. Universitat de València• Cristina Portalés Ricart. Universitat de València• Mar Gaitán Salvatella. Universitat de València• Eliseo Martínez Roig. Universitat de València• Marcos Fernández Marín. Universitat de València• Arabella León Muñoz. Garín 1820

Program30th November 2020

10:0010:30

Ester AlbaMarcos FernándezUniversitat de València

OPENING SESSIONSILKNOW, weaving our past into the future

10:4511:15

Patricia HarpringGetty Research Institute

Challenges and Resources for Terminology in Cultural Heritage. The Case of the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus

11:2011:50

Mar GaitánUniversitat de València

Controlled vocabularies: an essential tool for conserving textile cultural heritage

11:5512:30

Dolores SerranoUniversidad de La Laguna

Desde Al-Ándalus hasta Canarias: la herencia viva de la otra ruta de la seda

13:0015:00

LUNCH BREAK

15:0015:30

Arabella LeónGarín 1820

Pasado, presente y futuro de una industria textil sedera

15:3516:00

Cristina PortalésUniversitat de València

Reproducción tridimensional de tejidos tradicionales. El caso del espolín valenciano

16:0516:35

Chimo SolerInstituto Cervantes

La ruta de la seda: un patrimonio compartido

1st December 2020

10:0010:30

Jose Luiz PedersoliICCROM

PLENARY SESSIONOur Collections Matter: Enabling Sustainability through Heritage Collectionsand their Conservation

10:4511:15

Maurizio VitellaGeorgia Lo CiceroUNIPA

I risultati della ricerca per Silknow. Tessuti inediti dai Musei Ecclesiastici dellaSicilia Orientale

11:2011:50

Jorge SebastiánUniversitat de València

Interoperability of online catalogs: some case studies of textile collections

11:5512:30

Mareike DorozynskiFranz RottensteinerLeibniz Universität Hannover

Artificial Intelligence meets cultural heritage: Image classification for theprediction of semantic properties of silk fabrics

13:0015:00

LUNCH BREAK

15:0015:30

Thomas SchleiderEURECOM

Exploring the European Silk Cultural Heritage through the SILKNOW Knowledge Graph

15:3516:00

Luis ReiInstitut Jozef Stefan

Cross-Lingual Text Classification for Inferring Variables Describing SilkFabrics

16:0516:35

Marie PurenPierre VernusCNRS-LARHRA

Developing a data model for textile heritage based on CIDOC-CRM

Program2nd December 2020

10:0010:30

Patryk Wojciechowski PLENARY SESSIONThe Silk Now Collection

10:4511:15

Raúl AbeledoUniversitat de València

Culture as a strategic innovation factor for the Textile and Clothing sector: the CreativeWear project

11:2011:50

Francis Montesinos Alex Villar

La seda, inspiración, tejido y medio de expresión en la creación de Francis Montesinos

11:5512:30

Mar MoyaEASD València

Rediseñando la ruta de la seda

13:0015:00

LUNCH BREAK

PANEL 1

15:0015:20

Guillem BernatAlventosa TalamantesMuseu Valencià de la Festad’Algemesí

La seda y el estudio de la indumentaria como ejemplo de gestión cultural en Algemesí

15:2515:45

Maria VonaPolitecnico de Torino

El Filatoio Rosso de Caraglio (CN): cara y cruz del desplazamiento territorial de la producción piamontesa y la renovación del espacio cmo Museo de la seda en el Piamonte

15:5016:10

Maria RocaUniversitat de València

Seda de la Alhambra. Colección Fortuny en la Hispanic Society of America

16:1516:35

María Romero ValleIsmael Amaro MartosMuseos de ManzanaresUniversidad de Jaen

El museo dedicado a Manuel Piña en Manzanares (Ciudad Real)

PANEL 2

15:0015:20

María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos PascualCristina Expósito De VicenteSimona TardiSusana Herreras Sala Lucía Rojo IranzoInstitute of Sciences of Religions, UCMUniversitat de València

Palestine: silk and dyes. Proposal of a sustainable cultural tourismitinerary in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank with a positive impact on the empowerment of Palestinian women and human development

15:2515:45

Yurika SaitoNature and Science Museum. TUAT

Three-Dimensional Digital Reconstruction of a Western Silk MillIntroduced to Japan in the 19th Century

15:5016:10

Alexey KalistratovRimma TimofeevaSPbSUITD

The use of silk in body armor of the Russian Empire at the turn of the19th & 20th centuries

16:1516:35

Francesca ZanuttoUniversità di Torino

Venice and the Silk: from a Silk Road Museum to a geolocatedstorytelling

Program2nd December 2020

PANEL 3

15:0015:20

Susana Herreras Sala Amparo González García Lucía Rojo IranzoUniversitat de València

The artistic education of women in Valencia at the beginning of the20th century: the textile workshops of the Escola d’art i Superior de Disseny of València as a context for learning and femaleempowerment

15:2515:45

Edgar TalensUniversitat de València

La seda del Carmen: el último taller gremial de la ciudad de València

15:5016:10

Santiago EspadaUNED

La versión más textil del escultor Francisco Salzillo y Alcaraz. Un relevante patrimonio cultural a conservar

PANEL 4

15:0015:10

Nade Genevska BracikLiljana KovacovskaDusica BracikNI Institute and Museum BitolaMuseum of Republic North MacedoniaInstitut of Ethnology and Anthropology

POSTER PRESENTATIONThe production of silk and its use in the territories of North Macedonia

15:1015:20

María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos PascualLucía Rojo IranzoSusana Herreras SalaCristina Expósito De VicenteSimona TardiInstitute of Sciences of Religions, UCMUniversitat de València

POSTER PRESENTATIONHistorical silks through microscopic image techniques combined withexperimental reproduction of coloring materials for textile: Fromlaboratory studies to innovative museographic narratives.

15:2515:45

María Luisa Vázquez Simona TarbiCristina Expósito Susana Herreras Institute of Sciences of Religions, UCMUniversitat de València

Silk, color and aromas: The paths of a common heritage. Towards new museographies to promote a culture of peace

15:5016:10

Francisco RibesUniversitat de València

Moda y demanda de tejidos de seda en Hispanoamérica a finales del siglo XVIII: una contribución valenciana a través del comercio colonial

Program3rd December 2020

10:0010:30

Pilar BenitoPatrimonio Nacional

PLENARY SESSIONColecciones de Patrimonio Nacional de España

10:4511:15

Germán NavarroUniversidad de Zaragoza

Los nombres de los tejidos medievales en la Corona de Aragón: el mundo de las sedas

11:2011:50

Ricard HuertaUniversitat de València

Los Museos de la Seda en Asia y Europa. Análisis de elementos arquitectónicos, proyecto museográfico y propuestas educativas

11:5512:30

Ricardo FranchUniversitat de València

Las iniciativas adoptadas para perfeccionar la labor de los tintoreros de seda en la Valencia de finales del siglo XVIII.

12:3013:00

Dani MuñozUniversitat de València

Vermis sericus. La sericicultura y el negocio de la seda en el Mediterráneo Occidental a comienzos de la Edad Moderna

13:0015:00

LUNCH BREAK

15:0015:30

Xenophon ZabulisFORTH

Representation and Preservation of Heritage Crafts

15:3516:00

Javier SevillaUniversitat de València

STMaps, a tool for visualizing spatio temporal knowledge graphs

16:0516:35

Tina TomovicHochschule Luzern

Silk Memory – targets beyond the webportal

4th December 2020

ROUND TABLE 1.1 From documentation to open digital data, challenges and opportunities

10:0011:15

Jorge Sebastián (Moderator)Universitat de València

Amparo López. Museo Lázaro GaldianoPablo González. Museu de Belles Arts de ValènciaCelia Diego. Museo Nacional de Artes DecorativasPierfrancesco Palazzotto. Museo Diocesano di PalermoDomizio Cattoi. Museo diocesano di Trento

ROUND TABLE 1.2 Museums & textile heritage

10:0011:15

Ester Alba (Moderator)Universitat de València

Ricard Huerta. Museo de la Seda de ValènciaJaume Coll. Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias González MartíRafa Gil. Museu del Tèxtil de la Comunitat Valenciana d’Ontinyent

ROUND TABLE 2 European projects: a development opportunity

11:1512:00

Rodrigo Martín Galán (Moderator)European Comission

Agata Ulanowska. COST Euroweb (Uniwersytet Warszawski)Karen Brown. EU-LAC MUSEUMS (University of St. Andrews)Xenophon Zabulis. MINGUEI (FORTH)Mar Gaitán. SILKNOW (Universitat de València)

120013:00

Marco RendinaEuropean Fashion HeritageAssociation

CLOSING SESSIONSharing Europe’s Fashion Heritage Online