Traditional Clothing in Europe, VEST, is a European project of innovation in collaboration based on three fundamental premises, on the one hand the existing similarities of popular clothing in Europe, where the basic garment is usually the same, but it differs in details and complements, on the other hand of the lack of documentary references and research in this regard, and finally of the need to disseminate and strengthen the European cultural heritage, so that citizens actively engage with it. Based on these premises, VEST was born, an initiative that aims to publish a publication that includes a detailed analysis of the similarities of Traditional Clothing in Europe, with the purpose of disseminating it in the member countries and that serves as a support for the delivery of contents. training related to the textile sector, pattern design or fashion. For this, the project includes research activities in the six countries involved, Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Portugal and Estonia, transnational meetings every six months for the exchange of knowledge and multiplier events in the countries of the project partners. VEST is an intercenter strategic alliance, through which schools will join efforts and share their know-how to obtain as a final product a publication that will become a benchmark in the field of traditional clothing in Europe. VEST is therefore an open innovation project, open to the world, which will disseminate the results of its research, field work and technological surveillance through a publication that will be available in print and digital version. As a final result, throughout the two years of the project, we will obtain a documentary product of high historical value that will serve as a starting point for future collaborative projects and with a high replicability capacity that can be extrapolated to the study of other heritage elements. European culture, acting as a tractor effect.
VEST is an initiative whose objective was to publish a publication that included a detailed analysis on the comparison of the Identity of Traditional Clothing in Europe, with the aim of disseminating it in the member countries and serving as a support for the delivery of related training content. with the textile sector, pattern making or fashion. The European educational centers had detected that the knowledge about the making of traditional clothing garments is reduced to a small group of elderly artisans, whose production is scarce, remaining in our times this craft trade in a residual way, in which the Knowledge and technique are transmitted from one generation to another, concentrating production in certain places. In this sense, VEST had the objective of turning this weakness into a strength, making them aware of the importance of this material heritage and thus being able to have safeguard measures that allow their protection. All this with the support and participation, as wide as possible, of the European educational centers that provide textile training.
VEST is a project that started from three fundamental premises, on the one hand, the existing similarities in popular clothing in Europe, where the basic garment is usually the same, but differs from other regions in details, accessories and fabrics, for the other side of the lack of documentary references and research in this regard, and finally the need to disseminate and reinforce the European cultural heritage, so that citizens actively engage with it. European countries have an important ethnographic heritage within the repertoire of traditional clothing from the 18th and 19th centuries, but unfortunately the European educational centers where training related to the textile, clothing and leather family are taught lacked educational materials and historical investigations in which a comparison of traditional clothing will be carried out, in addition to facilitating the patterns, as well as a catalog of fabrics and raw materials for their preparation and replica. In this sense, VEST emerged, an initiative whose objective was to publish a publication that included a detailed analysis of the comparison of the Identity of Traditional Clothing in Europe.