ATU St Angelas TRACtion Team – TRACtion Workshop
We are preparing for a TRACTion workshop at ATU St Angelas on the 21st of February. In this workshop, the team will explore traditional costume techniques and bring these techniques forward…
We are preparing for a TRACTion workshop at ATU St Angelas on the 21st of February. In this workshop, the team will explore traditional costume techniques and bring these techniques forward…
Dr Lorraine Portelli and Dr Zoi Arvanitidou, the TRACtion team from the University of Malta, visited St. Ignatius College Ħaż-Żebbuġ Primary School on 6th February. The aim was to introduce…
As part of the Creative Europe @EU_TRACtion project, we will run educational workshops in 2024. A group of textile educators and artists met @ATUStAngelas to unpack a Design Learning framework…
The Creative Europe TRACtion team @EU_TRACtion is generating podcasts that provide an overview of the historical and cultural context and unique features of textile costume artefacts. The Irish podcast, created…
The lead project coordinator, Dr Lorraine Portelli, took an authentic għonnella (donated for the TRACtion project by the Gatt Family from Qormi) for 3D photogrammetry at Heritage Malta, in Kalkara.…
The University of Helsinki TRACtion team (Riikka Räisänen, Peppi Toukola, Mari Kosunen and Arvind Negi) visited the Dyes in History and Archaeology 2023 conference in Copenhagen. At the conference, the…
TRACtion actively participated in the SEA-EU Photo Contest with the theme, "A Sea of Diversity". The photographs submitted focused on highlighting the rich diversity associated with the traditional Maltese costume,…
Għonnella University Campus event unfolded on the campus, offering a unique experience for University students and staff. During this event, these students had the opportunity to wear the Għonnella, and…
Join us Traditional costume in Innovation live event and online stream, on Thursday at 13:00 - 15:00 (CET time zone). Discussants: Dr. Lorraine Portelli (University of Malta), Dr. Riikka Räisänen…
Researching costumes at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, with Sian McInerney, Collections Project Manager. See https://www.huntmuseum.com/stories/sybil-connolly/ for collection details and the Headford Lace Project members' detailed account of the 2018 Sybil…