JPCI 2025 - Patrimonialization - Patrimonializing textiles: issues and practices

The Journées du patrimoine culturel immatériel (JPCI) 2025 focus on textile arts.
A man seated from behind weaves a carpet
Carpet weaving, Tehran Province, ایران © Parham Moieni/unsplash‎

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

The intangible cultural heritage status of know-how related to the textile arts has necessitated the implementation of one or more heritage processes, led by heritage institutions but also by the holders of this know-how. This round-table will explore the issues and practices involved.

Moderation: Stéphane Sawas, Professor of Modern Greek at Inalco

Interventions:

  • Thomas Mouzard, anthropologist and chargé de mission for Immaterial Cultural Heritage at the French Ministry of Culture

  • El Houssaine Lazhar, researcher in sociology and anthropology

  • Michèle Coquet, anthropologist, director of research (CNRS)