The biotechnology department of the IHB presented a series of short lectures on the theme of “Gold-flies and silver shirts –what textiles can do for our health and well-being”.
Numerous exhibits and presentations in the media and conference centre demonstrated the whole range of modern medical and functional textiles.
The newly created exhibition room in the Josef Kurz Building was used for the first time. In future in this area of about 100 m2, selected products and applications from all areas of the textile industry will demonstrate the work of the Hohenstein Institutes.
In the spring of 2007, the SWR television series 'Stone Age' had the idea of comparing the clothing of Neolithic hunters and modern functional textiles.
In the programme, two volunteers crossed the Alps wearing replicas of Neolithic clothing, as found on Ötzi, the Glacier Man. On the 'Day of Ideas' one of them spoke about his personal experience with regard to the comfort characteristics of deerskin leggings and a bearskin coat.
These subjective impressions were compared with the scientific study carried out by the department of Clothing Physiology, which attracted considerable interest, not only in expert circles.
Federal President Horst Köhler, the patron of the scheme, said: “Germany – Land of Ideas: to me, this stands for curiosity and experimentation.
In all walks of life it stands for courage, creativity and a desire for the new, without doing away with the old.” There could probably be no better way of describing the Hohenstein Institutes, too.
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