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CHAPTER 5 | Ratti, adding value to the community and the region
involves industrial research, experimental development and innovation.
PILOT 6
+ 400,000
fabrics covering more than 100 years of history
+ 14,000
Books and fashion magazines in the library
5.4 Ratti and the Foundation supporting culture
Set up in 1985 and chaired by Annie Ratti,
the Antonio Ratti Foundation (ARF) focuses
on the history and trends in the world of costumery and the arts. In particular, it promotes initiatives, research and studies that allow researchers and artists, whether emerging or established, to produce new works and to reach a much wider audience.
With the objective of spreading the culture of beauty to the public at large as the primary source of Italian creativity, Ratti makes available, in cooperation with the Foundation, fabrics from its own production and archive to the increasingly numerous exhibitions organised in Italy and abroad.
The Museum of Fabric
The museum houses more than 400,000 fabrics covering more than 100 years of history, a “tessuteca” and a library with over 14,000 books and magazines, with online images, as well as a major collection of antique fabrics. In 1995 ARF also contributed to the creation of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with a space of 2,300 m3 housing the fabric collections.
The promotion of visual arts
Since 1988 ARF has been investigating the languages of the visual arts. Major international artists attend the annual CSAV-Artists Research
Ratti is involved in the “PILOT 6“ of the project, which involves the integration of plant and machinery with IT systems and the traceability of the product during the process. The project was launched in April 2018 and will end in September 2020. As scheduled, a number of preliminary activities were carried out in Ratti in 2018 before the launch of the project, including the mapping of production processes and, last but not least, an analysis of infrastructure.
At the same time Ratti continued its meeting and relationship-building activities with the leading players in sericulture (silk farming), agro-industrial activities that result in the production of silk yarn. These activities, which include mulberry/silkworm cultivation, the reeling and spinning of silk,
began mainly in China. Ratti, in cooperation
with companies and research centres, has undertaken a series of research studies and projects in sericulture that serve in the acquisition of knowledge and to launch experimentation.
ANTONIO RATTI FOUNDATION
Ratti chooses to support the world of art because never before, as on this occasion, has the narrative of fabric so focused the gaze of the visitor on those elements that encompassed the life of this patron, accompanying him on a fascinating and introspective journey into creativity and talent.
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