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experimental development and innovation. 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.
This programme envisaged the carrying out in Ratti of activities to map production processes, infrastructure analysis activities, and RFID scouting activities for product traceability. Details of the project may be viewed at: www.smart4cpps.it.
The Company is developing, in partnership with a team of data scientists, software to analyse demand based on stochastic analysis and neural algorithms.
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. In 2019 Ratti has continued with its activities to acquire knowledge and support such initiatives.
5.4 Ratti and the Foundation supporting culture
Ratti supports the Antonio Ratti Foundation in the promotion of initiatives, research and studies with the objective of spreading the culture of beauty as the first source of creativity.
The Antonio Ratti Foundation was founded in 1985 and is chaired by Annie Ratti. It is a not-for-profit institution that disseminates culture, history and global trends in
textiles and contemporary art. Thanks to its calendar
of courses and exhibitions, the Foundation’s goal
is to promote research and studies that will enable researchers and artists to produce new and ambitious works that have been specifically conceptualised.
With the objective of spreading the culture of beauty
to the public at large to enrich the creativity of new languages and new experiences, the Foundation makes available the antique textile collections from its archive to the increasingly numerous exhibitions organised in Italy and abroad.
The antique textile collection of Antonio Ratti
The Foundation preserves the antique textile collection of Antonio Ratti; they are considered to be of exceptional interest by the Italian state – they number more than 400,000 fabrics that illustrate the history of fabric from the III to the XX Century. The collections up to the 1980s have been subject to research and promotion by the Foundation through courses, publications, themed exhibitions, and the involvement of some scholars in the field of the history of global fabric.
Antique fabrics, given their fragility, need to be conserved in accordance with specific rules; for
this reason the Foundation is moving ahead with a photographic campaign and the electronic filing of the items in its textile collection. Through the Foundation’s website it is possible to access, free of charge, the Multimedia Catalogue and to consult the collection virtually without damaging the textiles.
There are currently around 30,000 files, a figure which is constantly being updated.
400thousand
FABRICS FROM
THE III TO THE XX CENTURY
7,800
BOOKS AND A RICH COLLECTION OF FASHION MAGAZINES IN THE LIBRARY
30thousand
COMPUTERIZED FABRIC SHEETS ON THE MULTIMEDIA CATALOGUE
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Ratti supports the Antonio Ratti Foundation in
the promotion
of initiatives, research and studies with
the objective of spreading the culture of beauty as the first source of creativity.
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