Biancalani Textile Machinery announced its subscription to the Textile Lovers programme dedicated to companies that support the Museo del Tessuto in Prato (the Textile Museum of Prato) and share its passion for textiles, fashion and Made in Italy. The textile manufacturing legacy is something the company deeply wants to preserve as its founder, Fiorenzo Biancalani, has been and still is the real pillar of the company, together with the know-how that has been built since he started his mechano-textile journey. Thanks to constant research and development, Biancalani has developed advanced finishing techniques and thus has managed to preserve textile tradition and get to innovative fabric processing.
‘Textile Lovers’ increase in Prato, the largest textile center in Europe
Biancalani Textile Machinery was looking for a place to support fabric quality preservation and to help find the ultimate key element: a connection among experts, innovators, and people passionate about fabrics. All three actors which are important, as they represent a piece of the textile world, place in Prato, one of the major textile cities from the Middle Ages to the present and the largest textile center in Europe, in a textile Museum: Textile Lovers project.
Biancalani, in line with its mentioned goals became a subscriber of subscribing to this project. It means taking action on an ethical level, to help building a place where textile knowledge is truly preserved, and to be part of the collective dialogue that emerges in a textile agora of the future.
The companies play a decisive role in the realisation of the projects of the Museo del Tessuto, an institution that symbolises the textile tradition and excellence of the Prato region. By joining Textile Lovers, the companies contribute concretely to the development of many initiatives. These include organisation of exhibitions, activities for schools and families, valorisation of company collections and archives, preservation of antique textile machinery, research and publications, social inclusion projects, development of the Textile Library – the new archive of contemporary textiles created for the education and inspiration of students and designers – and much more.