TCBL Textile & Clothing Business Labs is reinventing the European Textile & Clothing sector by exploring new ways to design, make, and work together. New production and distribution technologies, innovative organisational models and creative energies are opening up opportunities to bring production capacity back to Europe. Join TCBL to participate in this open, transformative ecosystem.

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Who is TCBL For?

Anyone who wants to transform the textile and clothing industry: sector businesses, researchers and explorers, service providers, and experts facilitating knowledge exchange and innovation.

Why should I join TCBL?

Become part of a value-based community where different types of organisations are working together to create a low-risk environment for business model innovation.

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Latest news

Short runs pilot joins up with German matchmaking platform Sourcebook

A small number of TCBL businesses have linked up with Sourcebook ( https://sourcebook.eu/en/start ) in order to create new opportunities to find...

Upcoming events

Tissue World Milan 2019

Milan 25/03/2019
The original Tissue World, which began in Nice in 1993 and held in 2017 in...

COMOCREA Textile Design Show

Cernobbio 22/10/2018
COMOCREA founded in 1990 aims at encouraging the export of textile designs by...

Fashion Tech Week

Paris 15/10/2018
Fashion Tech Week is an annual event that gathers emerging practices, new...

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Labs

Labs are the active, physical context in which TCBL's explorations of new models take place.
Check out the latest projects from our Labs.

TCBL Innovative Workplace Testing a new and innovative workplace for garment assembly that allows from small atelier to mid-large atelier to scale up the production maintaining May 23, 2018
Anneka Textiles Start-Up Anneka Textiles uses an upcycling method in a very similar way to the recycled wool that is famous in Prato. focusing on mixed fibre recycling. Tod May 15, 2018
Peter Gorse Start-Up applicant and TCBL member Peter's Start-Up';the idea was intended to be a Full disclosure garment using Blockchain / QR technology. The garment was specified as a natural fibre May 15, 2018

Business Pilots

TCBL supports Associate Enterprises that make up a value-based business community.
These enterprises have proposed concrete business cases that can freely explore the impact of innovative business models and that benefit from interaction with TCBL Labs.

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TCBL_ZINE

Storytelling, case studies, research and more on the world of textile and clothing in Europe

Sustainable Chemistry Method to Improve the Wash-Off Process of Reactive Dyes on Cotton
Industry 4.0: The Manufacturing Challenge
Methodologies and Tools for Chemicals Management
Detox: from threat for brands to opportunity for labs and manufacturers