Source: Museumsmanagement NÖ/Landessammlungen NÖ
A sub-project of the research project “Mobile things, peoples and ideas. A mobile history of Lower Austria”, funded by the research, technology and innovation strategy for Lower Austria (FTI-Strategie).
Funding
Amt der NÖ Landesregierung, Abteilung Wissenschaft und Forschung
Duration
July 2019 – January 2022
Principal Investigator
Ulrich Schwarz-Gräber
Researchers
Ulrich Schwarz-Gräber
In Cooperation with
Museumsmanagement Niederösterreich GmbH
Short Description
Fashion trends and heterogeneous clothing habits have mostly been interpreted as a “disturbance” of peasant culture imagined as a transtemporal phenomenon. The sub-project “Bewegte Mode/Moving Fashion” aims at a critical, data-based revision of this conception. Furthermore, the project will analyse the effects human and material mobility had on local clothing practices in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Building on a comprehensive data acquisition of textile collections in regional museums in Lower Austria north of the Danube, this sub-project reconstructs dynamic processes of exchange and appropriation in the field of rural clothing cultures. By using geometric data analysis, inventories of traditional clothing items will be examined and remapped in order to track regional and national transfers of forms and materials and to describe these transfers in case studies.