Amelia Skelton is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal Land (Sydney, Australia). Amelia’s practice is rooted in a methodology of working slowly and critically through found, discarded, kept and collected objects and materials, with a significant focus on textiles. Skelton’s practice meditates on the complexity of these things, interrogating their abundance, familiarity, significance and inextricable political implications. 

During her time at Lottozero, Amelia is combining textiles and photography using screenprinting, digital embroidery and the TC2 Loom, creating a series of works that respond to the notion of textiles as a material that both literally and figuratively mediates our experience of the world.

Amelia Skelton’s residency is made possible through the support of Create NSW

Amelia Skelton, Some things last a lifetime, 2023, found fabric, digital print on Belgium linen, embroidery thread, cotton thread, satin bias binding, painted frame, 64 x 67.5 cm. 
Photograph credit - Document Photography 

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Start: ASAP
Location: Prato (on-site presence required)

This junior freelance role is ideal for someone who is quick, reliable, and visually intuitive, with a good understanding of social media and an interest in fashion, textiles, and culture. The freelancer will support the Lottozero team with communication tasks, focusing primarily on content creation and maintaining our social media presence.

Main Areas of Activity:

Social Media Content

– Produce and edit photos and short videos/reels
– Create simple graphics or layouts for posts and stories
– Draft and schedule posts for Instagram and LinkedIn
– Maintain a consistent tone and visual language

Documentation & On-Site Support

– Capture images and videos of projects, events, and day-to-day activity at Lottozero
– Organize and archive visual material for future use

Basic Communication Tasks

– Prepare short captions, announcements, or updates
– Help keep the communication calendar organized

This position is well suited to someone at the beginning of their professional journey who is flexible, independent, and visually driven. It offers a steady, small monthly collaboration and the opportunity to grow skills in communication within a creative, multidisciplinary environment.

Apply here

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Posizione freelance: Junior Social Media & Communication Support

Inizio: il prima possibile
Sede: Prato (presenza in sede richiesta)

Questa posizione freelance junior è ideale per una persona veloce, affidabile e con una forte sensibilità visiva, che abbia una buona conoscenza dei social media e un interesse per moda, tessile e cultura. La/Il freelancer supporterà il team di Lottozero nelle attività di comunicazione, con particolare focus sulla creazione di contenuti e sul mantenimento della nostra presenza sui social media.

Principali aree di attività

Contenuti per i social media
– Produzione e montaggio di foto e brevi video/reel
– Creazione di semplici grafiche o layout per post e stories
– Stesura e programmazione di contenuti per Instagram e LinkedIn
– Mantenimento di un tono di voce e di un linguaggio visivo coerenti

Documentazione e supporto in sede
– Realizzazione di foto e video di progetti, eventi e attività quotidiane a Lottozero
– Organizzazione e archiviazione del materiale visivo per usi futuri

Attività di comunicazione di base
– Preparazione di brevi testi, annunci o aggiornamenti
– Supporto nell’organizzazione del calendario editoriale

Questa posizione è adatta a chi si trova all’inizio del proprio percorso professionale, è flessibile, autonomo e guidato da una forte attitudine visiva. Offre una collaborazione mensile continuativa ma di piccola entità e l’opportunità di sviluppare competenze di comunicazione all’interno di un ambiente creativo e multidisciplinare.

Candidati qui

Lottozero is proud to contribute to No Fake Fashion, an Erasmus+ initiative dedicated to helping small and independent fashion brands protect their creativity in an increasingly competitive and fast-moving market. The project focuses on giving emerging designers and textile SMEs the tools they need to defend their work against design theft and counterfeiting—issues that disproportionately affect smaller businesses with fewer resources to safeguard their intellectual property. Through training in AI-powered authentication, product traceability, and practical IPR strategies, the project empowers brands to claim their value and maintain control over their original designs.

As part of this effort, the consortium is developing 12 focused training pills covering essential skills for today’s fashion landscape. These include understanding intellectual property rights, recognizing and preventing counterfeiting, navigating e-commerce risks, and mastering key digital competencies such as AI-based image recognition, blockchain tracking systems, and cybersecurity. Each module will be offered in multiple languages and paired with micro-credential certification, helping small brands and creative professionals strengthen their digital readiness while protecting their artistic integrity. Read more about the project in the dedicated newsletter here (access the Italian newsletter).

The moment you have been waiting for has arrived: we are ready to launch the open call for Italian-speaking ARTISTS and CURATORS under 36 for TEXTILE ART FACTORY!

If you are a contemporary artist, if you adore contemporary textile art, if you want to take part in a 6-month training residency in the heart of the textile district: with formal and non-formal training, practical and theoretical lessons, studio and factory visits, workshops, talks, one-on-one mentoring, and the preparation of a final exhibition and catalogue this is your once-in-a-lifetime chance.

All residents will be hosted in our shared apartment, will have a working space in our studio, and will have full access to our textile lab. Each participant will receive a monthly stipend of 500 euros.

If you are: an artist or a curator (or aspiring curator); under 36; Italian-speaking (minimum level B1 to understand the lessons); not in formal education; and not employed full-time. DO NOT miss this opportunity!

The call for curators is open until the 18th of November 2025, and the selected curator will be chosen just in time to participate in the selection of the participating artists.
The call for artists is open until the 31st of December 2025.
More info here

Textile Art Factory is a project by Lottozero, Museo del Tessuto and SC17, funded by the Regional Programme FSE+ Tuscany 2021–2027, under the Public Notice approved by D.D. n. 138/2024, and part of Giovanisì, the Tuscany Region’s initiative for youth autonomy.

For Clara: Shortcut on an extended plane (SOCKS), 2025, dye sublimation print on synthetic fabric. Printed at Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University while an Artist-in-Residence.

Jennifer Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY, who works with print media, graphic design, textiles, writing, and sound to create site-responsive installations, video, and performances that question the role of visual iconography and repetitive actions within a given environment.

During her 3-week residency at Lottozero, Schmidt is experimenting with digital embroidery and reactive dye screenprinting on found woven textile samples produced in Italy. Responding to their existing patterns, color variations, and accidental dye marks, she layers new imagery and adjusts her digital files through machine drawing and printing processes. This work is part of her ongoing research project For Clara: Shortcut on an Extended Plane, which reflects on her identity as a woman artist working across graphics and textiles, while tracing a conceptual connection to Clara Posnanski — an early 20th-century designer and printer associated with the Wiener Werkstätte whose life and work remain largely undocumented.

Jennifer Schmidt received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware.
She is Professor of the Practice in Print at SMFA at Tufts University in Boston, MA.

We are excited to announce the third exhibition of our Soft Sculpture biennial program, with a solo show by Barbara Prenka, a Kosovo-born artist active between Bolzano and Berlin.

What Lies Behind the Boundaries of a Shadow extends her ongoing reflection on the blanket—an object that inhabits our daily lives and, in moments of crisis or social fragility, embodies care and shelter.
By recreating it from scratch—padding and hand-sewing shiny fabrics printed with abstract patterns—the artist turns the blanket into a terrain of imagination and material experiment. This artificial, abstract landscape unfolds as a tridimensional surface, where word and matter intertwine through embroidered texts.

Developed during her residency at Lottozero, the new series brings language into the work as a physical presence, inscribed in the fabric. The narrative, never linear nor fixed, settles within folds and reliefs, evoking inner images and subjective associations.
Emerging from a practice on the threshold between painting and sculpture, the blanket here shifts toward a sculptural dimension: the fold and the inertia of the padded fabric define new relations with space, architecture, and the identity of the site.
The exhibition takes form as a site-specific installation, activated by a sound composition by Alessandra Novaga, in which the blankets turn emptiness into a tangible presence. In this continuum, sound and silence, image and word merge until they coincide.

This project is the third chapter in Lottozero’s biennial program dedicated to Soft Sculpture, exploring the expressive and conceptual potential of soft and flexible materials within contemporary art.
The exhibition is co-funded by Toscanaincontemporanea 2025 and by the Province of South Tyrol - Department of Culture.

Opening: November 20, h 18.30
From 21.11.2025 to 15.02.2026
Mon-Fri 10.00-18.00; Sat and Sun by appointment
info@lottozero.org / Tel 0574 22883

In celebration of Female Entrepreneurship Day on November 19, join us online for a special event with Tessa and Arianna Moroder, founders of Lottozero.

Discover the story of how Lottozero began and learn how female entrepreneurship is shaping a more sustainable textile future. This interactive session is your chance to meet the founders, ask questions, and gain insights into building a creative and resilient business.

You’ll also get an exclusive first look at the W4TEX Project an Erasmus+ initiative empowering women to strengthen their management and leadership competencies through the Be a Manager online course and Women Think Green toolkit — resources designed to help women grow as confident, capable leaders.

November 19 | Online Event
Register here!

Born in Slovenia and now based in Glasgow, Anita Sarkezi is an artist and weaver of Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian, and Romani descent. She studied Fine Arts at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent and Textile Design (Weave) at the Glasgow School of Art, where she is currently Artist in Residence (2023–2025).

Rooted in her own experience as a migrant artist in a post-Brexit era, Anita’s practice explores ideas of movement, belonging, and cultural hybridity. Working between weaving and graphic experimentation, she investigates the translation between digital and analogue processes and the political and symbolic dimensions of ornament, deconstructing traditional motifs, meanings, and decorative functions to create a new visual language.

During her residency, she continues to develop her series On The Fringes, a body of woven works on the TC2 digital jacquard loom that reimagine historical maps of her native Slovenia—situated at the crossroads of Austria, Croatia, and Hungary. Through these tactile compositions, Anita reflects on the fluidity of borders and proposes a more inclusive way of envisioning territory and identity.

Anita Sarkezi’s residency is supported by The Textile Society.

Anita Sarkezi, Invasion No.2, from the series The Fringes, 2025, Jacquard woven tapestry, 58 x 63 cm.

Lottozero is pleased to share the latest developments from W4TEX – Women for Textile, the Erasmus+ initiative dedicated to advancing women’s leadership, sustainability competencies, and managerial capacity within the textile and fashion sectors.

In recent months, the consortium has made major progress on two core project outputs. The Women Think Green Toolset —a comprehensive training package designed to build green and problem-solving skills among women working in textile companies and among adult educators, is now online. The toolset includes clear factsheets on environmental impacts across the textile value chain, 18 case studies from women-led sustainable enterprises, and a collection of practical training scenarios that apply green managerial thinking to real-world challenges. Read more about it in this dedicated newsletter (access the Italian version).

At the same time, the “Be A Manager” e-learning platform has been released, offering 12 structured modules on leadership, crisis management, teamwork, and other managerial skills tailored to the textile sector. The platform features self-assessment tools, editable resources for educators, and multilingual access, concluding with a certificate of completion. Piloting sessions across partner countries have helped refine the platform ahead of wider dissemination. Read more about it in this dedicated newsletter (access the Italian version).

Looking ahead, W4TEX is preparing a series of National Ideathons taking place in autumn 2025—creative innovation challenges designed to bring together women in textiles, sustainability practitioners, and entrepreneurs to co-develop ideas for a greener and more inclusive sector. These national events will culminate in a Final International Ideathon in Greece in early 2026.

As part of the Italian activities, Lottozero will host a special Female Entrepreneur Mixer on December 1st. This gathering will celebrate women leading the future of sustainable fashion and textiles, featuring guest talks by:

• Giuliana Borzillo – Co-founder of ID.EIGHT

• Gaia Segattini – Founder of Gaia Segattini Knotwear

• Pamela Burani – Founder of Nonplussed

The event will create a space for networking, exchange, and inspiration among emerging designers, makers, and women entrepreneurs in Tuscany and beyond.
 For more information and to sign up, please visit our Eventbrite page.

Explore all W4TEX updates and tools on the project website.

Our project dedicated to digital technology innovations in the textile sector, TEX4.0 – Enabling Industry 4.0 Skills in Textile SMEs, has officially wrapped up, and all final resources are now available online for free for anyone who wants to dive into the future of textiles. Read the full press release here (Italian version).

One of the core outcomes is the TEX4.0 Curriculum and Report, which gives an overview of the digital skills today’s textile professionals need—from understanding new technologies to adapting traditional craftsmanship to an Industry 4.0 world. You can download the full report and explore the research behind the training materials here (download the Italian version).

The heart of the project is the TEX4.0 Training Suite, a user-friendly learning environment that includes:

• 12 e-learning modules on topics like robotics, AI, smart textiles, digital product passports, IoT, and the future of supply chains.

• A Trainer’s Corner packed with lesson plans, quizzes, and ready-to-use teaching materials.

• 18 real-life case studies, including several enhanced with augmented reality to show how European textile companies are already using Industry 4.0 tools in their work.

Everything is available online, and learners can earn a certificate by completing the course (sign up for the training course here).

Now that all results are public, TEX4.0 offers a practical, engaging way for textile professionals, trainers, and curious learners to build their digital skills and rethink the future of the sector—at their own pace, and completely for free.

Explore the full set of tools and materials on the project website.

Shanzhai Lyric, “Incomplete Poem (hedge)”, for the group show “The Weight of Words”, Henry Moore Foundation, UK, 2023

Shanzhai Lyric is a poetic inquiry and archive run by artists Ming Lin and Alex Tatarsky, focusing on radical logistics and linguistics through the prism of technological aberration and nonofficial cultures.

The project takes inspiration from the experimental English of shanzhai t-shirts made in China and proliferating across the globe to examine how the language of counterfeit uses mimicry, hybridity, and permutation to both revel in and reveal the artifice of global hierarchies. Through an ever-growing archive of poetry-garments, Shanzhai Lyric explores the potential of mis-translation and nonsense as utopian world-making (breaking) and has previously taken the form of poetry-lecture, essay, and installation.

During their week-long residency at Lottozero, Ming Lin and Alex Tatarsky explored the local concept of “rossino,” connecting it to their ongoing research on rag recycling and regeneration across Prato, New York, and the English tradition of “shoddy.”

We’re thrilled to announce that Lottozero is once again hosting a young entrepreneur through the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme!

Lottozero,  continues its commitment to supporting new creative talent in textiles, fashion, and design.

This year, we’ve decided to take a more focused approach. In order for the Erasmus programme to be truly successful, we believe it’s essential to be clear about what kind of experience we can offer and what kind of entrepreneur can make the most of it. That’s why we’ve created a specific profile for the candidate we’d love to host: someone hands-on, curious, and deeply passionate about textiles, materials, and design processes, who’s ready to learn the entrepreneurial side of running a creative lab.

The selected participant will work closely with our Lab Manager inside the Lottozero Textile Lab, engaging daily with machinery, materials, and production workflows, while gaining first-hand insight into creative research, collaboration, and studio management.

Please note: this opportunity is open to participants who are eligible for the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme. Please check eligibility here: erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/page.php?cid=2

If this sounds like you, please fill out this Google Form.

 This form is designed to help us get to know you better — your background, motivation, and interest in joining Lottozero. The information you share will help us understand whether your profile aligns with the kind of experience we can offer in our textile laboratory and creative community. Please note that the form can be submitted until the 22nd of November.

Please note that the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs funding and eligibility process is handled separately by the program’s national contact points in each country. Each applicant should check their own eligibility and apply for funding through their local organization.

Nadia Tamanini, Esercizi di rinnovata scrittura - imparaticcio #0: potenza palindroma, 2023, cross-stitch on Aida fabric, mirrors, 18X18X18 cm

Nadia Tamanini (b. 1987, Trento) is a multidisciplinary artist working across visual poetry, installation, and performance. Through her practice, words, images, and materials become tools for dialogue — between individuals and communities, adulthood and childhood.
She explores language as material, transforming words into images, sounds, and gestures in dialogue with space, where text takes on tangible, sculptural form shaped by her belief in relation, intersection, and biodiversity.

During her month-long residency at Lottozero (till the end of October), she will continue her research on visual poetry, experimenting with new textile techniques such as jacquard weaving, digital embroidery, and knitwear.

Her work, often site-specific, has been presented in Italy since 2011 in solo and group exhibitions, festivals, illustrated books and poetry publications, and especially within curatorial projects for museums, community spaces, and private collections.

For the magazine Arte Trentina, she is the author of original poems for the poetry column L’occhio attraverso (“The Eye Through”). Her work is part of the permanent collection of MUSEION – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano Bozen.

Next Friday marks the final day to experience Liselore Frowijn’s exhibition Every Month I Weave at Lottozero.

A project we hold very close to our hearts, Every Month I Weave explores the history and politics of textile labor, the female body, and invisible work — themes deeply intertwined with the city of Prato and its rich textile heritage. 
Inspired by the historical figure of Margherita Datini, the exhibition weaves together archival research, contemporary textile practice, and feminist reflection, offering a poetic and critical lens on the ways women’s labor has been essential yet often erased from social and economic narratives.

Finissage: Friday, October 24th, 18:00 – 20:30 at Lottozero

“Stitching the Poetry” (2022–ongoing) is a communal embroidery workshop initiated by the artist duo Handwork — Dileta Deikė and Jelena Škulis.

First conceived in the spring of 2022, as war broke out in Ukraine, the project invited the local community in Vilnius to embroider a poem by Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk—written amidst the devastation of Hostomel, Bucha, Irpin, Kharkiv, and Mariupol—onto a hand-woven linen fabric once hidden underground during World War II.
This act of stitching became both a protest and a healing ritual, using thread and words as weapons of truth and resilience.

The linen now carries the voices of poets across generations. In this workshop, participants are invited to continue this living work by embroidering war-time poetry by Iryna Starovoyt and the late Viktorija Amelina, who was tragically killed in Kramatorsk.

No prior experience in embroidery is required. All materials will be provided.
The workshop will be held in English.

Number of participants: max. 15
Duration: 17:00 – 18:30
Free registration via Eventbrite
Via Arno, 10 Prato

The workshop is part of the Cultura Lituana in Italia 2025–2026 program.
The Cultura Lituana in Italia 2025–2026 program is implemented by the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Italian Republic.

Susanne Khalil Yusef, detail of Café Disorient-We Want To Live, 2021, Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Photo by Flip Franssen.

This year, the British Textile Biennial (BTB) invited Textile Culture Net (TCN) to co-curate and develop a special online exhibition that expands the Biennial’s 2025 theme, of industrial production, synthetic cloth over the past century, the damage it has wrought, and what we can recover from alternative traditions through a global perspective.

Next week, join two free online panel discussions moderated by Laurie Peake, BTB’s Artistic Director, in which artists and experts expand on these themes and how textiles carry the traces of labour, industry, and nature:

Monday 20 October
Thursday 23 October

Attendance is free (limited seats), for more detailled information on the entire BTB program check out their Eventbrite

Meanwhile, the British Textile Biennial 2025 runs from 2 October to 2 November across East Lancashire, UK, with exhibitions, installations, talks, and events in historic textile venues.

We’re thrilled to announce our first participation in Dutch Design Week 2025, taking part in two projects that reflect our ongoing commitment to sustainable innovation and creative collaboration.

At Klokgebouw, Strijp-S, Booth B10 we present Circular Wool – Robotufted Carpet, developed with Margaux Minodier and Casalis. The project transforms undervalued wool waste — the so-called raw wool from cheese and meat farming — into refined textile surfaces through an innovative combination of material research and robotic tufting, proposing a new circular model for interior textiles where craft and technology meet.

At the same time, we join New Order of Fashion’s program Wool: (Re)discovered at the NOOF Lab, an inspiring week of exhibitions, talks, and workshops exploring the regenerative potential of wool. On Saturday 25 October, Lottozero will contribute with a talk, Understanding Talent Development & Creative Hub Infrastructure, and a workshop, Made in Prato: A Textile Literacy Workshop for Designers, sharing our experience from Prato’s circular textile district.

We’re proud to be in such amazing company and extend our thanks to New Order of Fashion for the invitation and the inspiring collaboration.

Dutch Design Week runs from 18 to 26 October 2025 in Eindhoven.

For the fifth edition of BAW – Bolzano Art Weeks, Lottozero presents What Lies Behind the Boundaries of a Shadow?, a new site-specific installation by Barbara Prenka, curated by Lottozero and shown inside the former bar of Bolzano’s Central Station.

Developed during the artist’s residency at Lottozero (July–September 2025), the project extends Prenka’s ongoing exploration of the blanket as a sculptural and symbolic object. Recreated from scratch as a hybrid between painting and soft sculpture, the blanket becomes both surface and volume—an image of care and protection, yet also of absence and displacement. Suspended from the ceiling and illuminated by a single spotlight, the textile form hovers in darkness, transforming the empty room overlooking platform one into an intimate, contemplative space.

The installation is accompanied by a sound piece by Alessandra Novaga, which interacts with the constant rhythm of trains and travelers passing by. Embroidered words emerge as tactile signs, where language turns into texture and text becomes body.

What Lies Behind the Boundaries of a Shadow? marks the beginning of an extended collaboration between Lottozero and Barbara Prenka. A new version of the project will be presented at the Lottozero Kunsthalle in 2026 as part of the exhibition program Soft Sculpture, dedicated to contemporary approaches to sculpture through textile materials.

Presentation: 08.10 h. 17.00
Opening times: 03.10-11.10 Mo-Sa: 15.00-19.00

Ex-Restaurant Bolzano train Station, Piazza della Stazione 1
Supported by the Province of South Tyrol – Department of Culture