JPCI 2025 - Au fil des mains: textile techniques and transmission

The Journées du patrimoine culturel immatériel (JPCI) 2025 focus on textile arts.
a person in traditional woven clothing
Weaving © Anyela Malaga Lazarte / Unsplash‎

Many of the skills associated with the textile arts enjoy Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) status: from Indonesian batik to pagne weaving in Côte d'Ivoire, via the art of embroidery in Palestine, all bear witness to the same desire to make and give shape.

Textile arts practices are made up of hundreds of different techniques, inherent to each culture and population. Among them are weaving, dyeing, lacemaking and printing, all skills that tell stories, embody identities and reflect worlds.

Today, preserving these living heritages relies on an essential challenge: transmission. Teaching these techniques, sharing them and making them evolve guarantees their vitality, while creating bridges between past and present.

Moderation: Noémi Godefroy, Senior Lecturer at Inalco, Japanese Studies Department

Interventions:

  • Akiyo Kajiwara, textile design artist
  • Anne Grosfilley, specialist in textiles and fashion in Africa
  • Hélène Trébuchet, doctoral student specializing in the textile arts of Taiwan