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The 2013 organizers and partners Institut de France - Louis Genouillac23 quai Conti 75270 Paris Cedex 06 - France  Phone: + 33 (0) 1 44 41 44 20Email: fondations@institut-de-france.fr / Website: http://www.institut-de-france.fr  Agence SP&C – Services, Prestations et Communication/ Paul Schuler, 2013 Coordinator AwardBP 40035  59612 Fourmies Cedex - France  Phone: + 33 (0) 6 62 85 60 11 or + 33 (0)3 27 60 73 96Email: pschuler@netcourrier.com / Website: www.services-prestacom.fr  Union des... [Lire la suite]

From the 2010 Théophile Legrand Prize to Damart marketing in 2013 The first smart bioactive textile also referred to as the "auto-refreshing" textile by Gauthier Bedek, winner of the 2010 International Théophile Legrand Textile Innovation Prize, will be released soon this year (May 10, 2013) under the name "Océalis" Damart. For the Théophile Legrand Foundation - Institut de France it is with great pride to honor this revolutionary invention in the world of textile. The 30 years old  professor-researcher at Ecole des Hautes... [Lire la suite]

Milestones in the Théophile Legrand Saga - March 8, 1799: Birth of Louis Théophile Legrand in Fourmies. He is the descendant of a local lace and cotton manufacturing company that has been in business since the eighteenth century. - 1806, 1807 and 1808: Théophile Legrand suffers the death of the mother, then younger brother and finally his younger sister  - 1810: Théophile Legrand’s father, Louis-Joseph Legrand, constructs a special-spinning cotton mill.  - November 11, 1819: Théophile Legrand marries Helen Josephine... [Lire la suite]

« Fourmies : yarnneedle »   Established in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais since the thirteenth century, the textile industry has forever marked the collective memory of the region of Fourmies, mainly oriented towards an industry of spinning and wool weaving. The region proved optimal for such textile development due to the favorable natural conditions (forests and ponds that offer moisture suitable for spinning extremely fine threads), the textile factories produce fine fabrics for apparel, and additionally specializing in... [Lire la suite]

The inventor of decontaminating textile receives the 2012 Textile Innovation Award!   On Sunday, October 7 at the Abbaye Royale de Chaalis (Oise), the first Prize worth € 10,000 was awarded by Philippe taquet, President of the Academy of Sciences since January 2013, to the French inventor Pierre-Alexandre Bourgeois for a decontaminating textile. The second prize of € 8,000 was awarded by Bernard Esambert, Vice President of Lagardère Group, former President of the Pasteur Institute and advisor to President Georges Pompidou from... [Lire la suite]

The 2012 call for entrants   The 2012 Théophile Legrand International Prize for Textile Innovation will take place on Sunday, 7th October 2012 at 14.30 in the Abbaye Royale de Chaalis, Oise, France. Two awards (totalling 18 000 Euros) will be made to researchers or postgraduate students in acknowledgement of original contribution to the textile industry through the creation of: an original material, fibre or fabric; a new and innovative textile design; or a new way of producing industrial textiles.   A springboard for... [Lire la suite]

The 2012 Rules and Regulations ARTICLE 1 – AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Following the establishment of the Institut de France’s Théophile Legrand Foundation in 2007 by Dominique and Christian Cambier, The Théophile Legrand International Prize for Textile Innovation has annually awarded two prizes for original contributions to textile innovation since 2009. The prize rewards two researchers or students demonstrating an ability to invent the ‘textile of tomorrow’, the original creation of fabrics and fibres or new ways of industrial textile... [Lire la suite]

Théophile Legrand Foundation – Institut de France Ecomusée de l'avesnois / Fourmies’ Textile and Social life Museum Yves and Christian Cambier of Théophile Legrand Foundation; Anne-Marie Stiévenart and Xavier Bouyer of the Ecomusée de l'avesnois Sponsored by « Clubtex » and the most prestigious textile engineering schools : « Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles de Roubaix », « Ecole des Hautes Etudes d’Ingénieur de Lille », « Institut Technique et Chimique de Lyon » and « Ecole... [Lire la suite]