By way of resolution no. 351/A2001C/2021
the Regional Authorities of Piedmont enlisted the Fondazione Chierese per il Tessile e per il Museo del Tessile in the register of cultural institutions of regional interest, thus deserving regional funding over the 2021-2023 three-year period
PLACE OF CULTURE AWARD 2022
Italian Society of Textile and Colour Chemistry (AICTC)
MISSION AND VALUES
The Fondazione Chierese per il Tessile e per il Museo del Tessile preserves and promotes the material and immaterial heritage of textile culture, particularly the artistic and manufacturing legacy of Chieri and its surroundings, but also the traditions from a different contexts and cultural areas.
The Foundation preserves and promotes its collections, held in its Textile Museum, Archive, Library and Botanical Garden. It also promotes weaving, needlework, and natural dye workshops. While fostering collaboration with artists in residence and professionals working at specific projects, the Foundation pursues artistic research and specialist studies in the field of textile arts. Furthermore, the Foundation provides an informal learning environment for schools, small classes and individuals, including people with disability, especially physical and sensory.
The Foundation rejects adverse discrimination and, as a cultural actor, implements policies aimed at ensuring equal opportunities, cohesion and inclusion, also through cross-cultural and cross-generational dialogue. It promotes talent, creativity, innovation and industrial development pursuing environmental, social and economic sustainability.
OUR MOTTO : WEAVING THE FUTURE WITH THREADS FROM THE PAST
Renovated in 2021, Chieri
Textile Museum is part of the ETN as well as the network 'Musei di Classe'
('class/classy musums') promoted by the Unione Industriali Torino.
Textile technical drawings, materials, machinery and artefacts dating from the XVIIIth to the XXth century are displayed made accessible, as happens in our Textile Botanical Garden®.
FROM CHIERI TEXTILE MUSEUM TO THE PATCH: ARMANDO BRUNETTI'S WOAD MILL TINGES IDENTITY AND MEMORY
The Foundation has donated
their Woad Mill, inherited from our founder,
Armando Brunetti (1934-2015)
to the Town of Chieri.
It will be unveiled at the opening of the new urban park named PaTCh.
RECENT EVENTS
TEXTILE BOTANICAL GARDEN® Textile and dye plants for a greener, sustainable world.