Like Silk

Artist list

Belén Campos, María Candela, María Cortez, Glenny Lantigua, Débora Mir, Cindy Valencia, Carlotta de Paz

Like Silk is a collaboration project between the EASD Valencia and the University of Valencia who are the coordinators of the Silknow project. This collection is part of the Silknow Project which is a research project funded by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 Framework program. From this collaboration Like Silk was born, a collection of 8 brooches were created by students of the subject CAD Tools course of the 2nd grade of Jewellery and Objects of the EASD Valencia during the 2019-2020 academic year. The participation of the jewellery department of the EASD Valencia arises from a collaboration suggestion offered by the University of Geography and History of Valencia in order to provide an artistic and pedagogical vision to the project, merging the concepts of tradition and technology with art.

We worked with the idea of giving a projection beyond the purely aesthetic, for this reason, the idea of giving volume to the flat patterns was thought, stretching them towards a third dimension. The brooches are a work of synthesis on the primary drawings of the prints, a search in the path of the lines that make up the different drawings of the print, for that image extrapolation the emblematic silhouettes of each of the prints were isolated from their set with which you were working. Once the silhouette was determined, the structure was created in 3D and prototyped in black PLA plastic, on this structure a traditional silk fabric of Valencian clothing is adapted and in the upper part as a fixing motif it has a metallic piece with the inscription “Like Silk ”name of the collection.
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Guide teacher: Professor Jose Marin


About Silknow project:
It was born from the importance of the silk heritage for Europe as a space for cultural, linguistic and economic exchange and it will last for 36 months, from 2018 to 2021. It is made up of 9 partners from 6 countries (Germany, Slovenia, Spain, France, Italy and Poland), including creative industries, small and medium-sized enterprises, universities, research centers and museums. It also has collaborating institutions as diverse as the World Tourism Organization, the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), National Heritage (Spain), Center des Monuments Nationaux (France), and The Getty Research Institute (USA).

Silknow is a research project that is committed to the conservation, understanding and dissemination of European cultural heritage related to silk textiles from the 15th and 19th centuries, related to the Silk Road, and to the Western European routes, taking care of both to its tangible part of the textiles themselves as well as its intangible part of the art of weaving.