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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Starts residencies opportunity for TCBL Labs

The following opportunity may be of interest to TCBL Labs: Artists are likely to develop visions for technology that are different from researchers...

Upcoming events

Circular Economy Experiences

Prato 20/11/2018
A seminar organized in collaboration with the partners of prominent European...

Meet@ International Textile Conference 2018

Aachen 29/11/2018
Unioncamere Veneto-Eurosportello jointly with Enterprise Europe Network (600...

Digital Heritage Online Seminar

Prato 04/12/2018
The Design Lab at the Prato Textile Museum will organize an online seminar on...

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C-Voucher Open Call: An opportunity for TCBL Labs and Associates

This Open Call could represent a good opportunity for TCBL Labs and Associates to get funding for their projects towards circular economy business models. C-VoUCHER , a H2020 project, combines service design and technology to support SMEs on their way to circular economy . To this purpose, it will...
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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

An Augmented Reality Showroom
Sustainable textile finishing using ozone and nanobubble technologies
Sustainable Chemistry Method to Improve the Wash-Off Process of Reactive Dyes on Cotton
Industry 4.0: The Manufacturing Challenge