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

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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

Stop&Read: Transparency as Competitive Advantage

Did you know that: only 42% of the large fashion brands disclose supplier information (McKinsey, 2017) tracing raw materials remains a huge challenge...

Upcoming events

Fashion Tech Week

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

TCBL Dish & Swish Event

Huddersfield 14/06/2018
In today’s society we are all culprits of over shopping and being driven...

TCBL meets TuscanyFashionCluster

Prato 31/05/2018
The TCBL community in collaboration with Sqetch and the Tuscan District of...

From the forum

Prato lab seeks company able to re-work garments to create new ones

Dear all I post here below the message of Simona from the design studio "Riccardo Rami", based in Prato. They are joining the TCBL community as a Design Lab and have an urgent need to find a company that is able to re-work old or unsold products to be used to create new garments. Please...
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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