International Fiber Art Biennale Opens In Nantong

One of the largest and most renowned events in the field of fiber art.

It opened in Nantong, Jiangsu.

Lu Shanwen, Deputy Secretary General of the Nantong municipal government, said that the exhibition was aimed at better protecting the historical legacy of Nantong's modern industry, and promoting the pformation of Nantong's traditional industries through the development of creative industries.

According to Lin Lecheng, Professor of Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, before 1996, the center of world fiber art is located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Its main activity is the International Biennial of fiber art.

In 2000, led by the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University and the China Academy of Arts and crafts, the leaders and leaders of the international fiber art society met in Beijing. They issued the "Beijing declaration" and decided to pfer the international biennial art exhibition to cities in China in rotation and pfer from the world fiber Art Center to China.

Now, "from Lausanne to Beijing", "International Fiber Art Biennale" has been recognized by the Ministry of culture as a national international cultural exchange activity, and the city approved by the Ministry of culture is the sponsor of the exhibition.

Since 2000, Biennale has held 6 sessions in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and other places. It has become the world's largest fiber art festival, enjoying a high artistic reputation in the international art circles and shaping into an internationally renowned academic brand.

The Nantong biennial exhibition of fiber art is the hometown of China's textile industry. It has nearly a thousand years of cotton planting history and textile tradition. Many traditional folk fiber technologies such as blue printed cloth, embroidery, tie dyeing, silk and so on are well known at home and abroad.

Nantong once produced the first cotton mill and the first textile school in modern China, and opened the century old civilization of fiber industry.

However, as the production costs continue to rise, Nantong's textile industry has faced a serious survival crisis.

In recent years, textile enterprises in Nantong have begun to attach importance to creative industries.

Through the technological pformation, creative implantation, property rights protection and brand promotion, the traditional industry has shown new vitality.

The home textile industry has entered the era of creativity, whether it is fabric, shape, color, or brand promotion, sales mode, only by being unique can we grasp the market.

The design of flower colors and patterns protected by copyright has not only greatly increased the added value of home textile products, but also gradually formed a new industry dominated by flower color and pattern design in the market.

According to incomplete statistics, the creative industry around Nantong home textiles has exceeded 5 billion yuan.

Nantong's home textile designers go to Germany, France, Italy and other places to visit and study. The Frankfurt home textile exhibition in Germany is almost every year.

According to Chen Liang, deputy director of Nantong Culture Bureau, Nantong's textile industry has changed from the original spinning and weaving to the industrial cluster cluster with the core of the home textile product paction. Nantong's Zhihao and two home textile cities of the peri stone bridge create 50 billion annual sales, accounting for 40% of the domestic market, and 200 thousand jobs in the home textile product design, production and packaging industries, making Nantong the largest and third largest home textile market in the world.

According to incomplete statistics of the Copyright Protection Office of the two home textile cities, the copyright declaration of Nantong's home textile industry reaches thousands of items every year, which effectively enhances the vitality and market competitiveness of Nantong textile enterprises.

According to the director of Nantong state owned real estate Group Co., Ltd., who holds the Biennale, the place where the Biennale is located is located in Nantong Tang gate area.

The important town of development has formed a complete light textile industrial cluster early in China, and its modern industrial heritage and historical block style remain intact.

By using the biennial exhibition machine, the Tang gate area will also be rebuilt into a creative industrial park, so that Nantong can upgrade the old town and old industry to the handmade art city while protecting the modern industrial sites.