Fabric quality preservation is in our hands. And “in our hands” has a double meaning: that is on all of us; that leaders and experts in the textile industry must lead the way. Now, this can happen not on two parallel paths, but in a sort of modern agora where research, expertise, care, and passion for textiles and Made in Italy all convey one goal: preserve tradition and pursue innovation.
Biancalani Textile Machinery was looking for such a place exactly 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 are important, as they represent a piece of the textile world. No wonder that place – and project – exists in one of the textile cities par excellence – from the Middle Ages to the present, Prato has been the cradle of textile manufacturing – in one of the textile museums par excellence. And no wonder it is called, simply and deeply, Textile Lovers.
We are talking about Museo del Tessuto in Prato (the Textile Museum of Prato), an actual retreat for textile experts, researchers, and anyone who loves the textile world, the largest cultural center in Italy dedicated to the promotion of historical and contemporary textile production and art, whose collections and exhibition are attended by key figures of the textile and fashion international industry. It was just a matter of time until its path crossed the one of Biancalani Textile Machinery, as both the museum and the company are dedicated to fabric quality preservation and innovation.
The textile manufacturing legacy is something Biancalani Textile Machinery deeply wants to preserve as its founder, Fiorenzo Biancalani, has been and still is the real pillar of the company, together with the knowhow that has been built since he started his mechano-textile journey. Thanks to constant research and development, Biancalani Textile Machinery has developed advanced finishing techniques and thus has managed to preserve textile tradition and get to innovative fabric processing.
Unsurprisingly, it became somewhat necessary to share these goals and support other potential goals of the kind by subscribing to the Textile Lovers project. It has meant 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. Biancalani Textile Machinery will take part.
