Textile Culture Net: an international network of four textile institutions
Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (Poland)
Lottozero in Prato (Italy)
TextielMuseum in Tilburg (The Netherlands)
CHAT - Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (Hong Kong)
TCN institutions share the common ambition to develop new curatorial practices, engage younger and more diverse audiences and collaborate internationally.
Using the realm of the digital as a dissemination platform, the network launches a series of co-curated online exhibitions, offering space to a diverse palette of cultural perspectives, as well as ways to present, collect and facilitate the making of textile art and design.
The guest curators who have been invited to join the project in 2023/2024 are:
Caroline Kipp (USA), Bukola Oyebode (Nigeria / The Netherlands), Zoe Yah (Taiwan) and Hilde Skancke Pedersen (Norway / Sámi).
TCN’s online programs are published on the Instagram accounts of the institutions and connected by the hashtag #TextileCultureNet.
exhibition program
TCN invites guest curators to join its curatorial team proposing an exhibition theme to which other curators react with an artwork proposition. This dialogue shapes a dynamic exchange of views, methods and perspectives on textile.
Curated by Caroline Kipp
Curated by Zoe Yeh
Curated by Bukola Oyebode
Curated by Hilde Skancke Pedersen
Textile Culture Net is co-funded by the European Union, grant agreement n°101099994, views and opinions expressed in this publication are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Textile Culture Net X British Textile Biennial 2025
In 2025 TCN collaborates with the British Textile Biennial (BTB) on a special online exhibition, created to explore the Biennial’s theme through the global perspective of Textile Culture Net (TCN).
Co-curated by BTB Artistic Director Laurie Peake and curators from the TCN network, the exhibition follows TCN’s distinctive digital format. Responding to the theme of BTB25: The Future Was Always There – from sea snails to Star Wars, it connects ancestral knowledge, contemporary practices, and speculative futures.
