Labor

Chances are you have never made it to Augsburg, Germany (I certainly haven’t). But if you had, you more than likely would have visited the Augsburg Textile And Industry Museum (TIM). The museum, located in a former worst spinning mill, is actually an anchor point on the European Route Of Industrial Heritage, which highlights the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe. TIM recently launched a video installation consisting of two acts designed to highlight the juxtaposition of the beauty of fashion and the brutality within the textile industry.

Both acts take something old and make it new again – a statement about the industry’s new push towards sustainability. For the first act, the lighting is controlled in real time by a punch card used to create a towel in an old Jacquard loom. All the visuals are