New TextielLab weaving machine brings excitement to artists and designers

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New TextielLab weaving machine brings excitement to artists and designers
Otobong Nkanga inaugurates new acquisition. Photo: Josefina-Eikenaar / TextielMuseum.



TILBURG.- Since recently, the TextielLab in Tilburg has a brand-new computer-controlled Dornier weaving machine with a width of no less than 3.5 metres. TextielLab made this long-cherished dream come true thanks to a contribution by the national government, being awarded the Dutch Basic Cultural Infrastructure. With its unprecedented width, the machine opens up a world of new technical possibilities for (textile) artists and designers. The internationally renowned Nigerian-Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga has the honour of inaugurating the new acquisition.

The new weaving machine was on the wishlist of the TextielLab, the professional workshop of the TextielMuseum, for quite some time already. The lab has three computer-controlled weaving machines, for which the waiting list was getting longer and longer. “A fourth machine not only allows us to welcome more artists and designers but also allows for new creative possibilities at our lab,” says Hebe Verstappen, head of the TextielLab. “The width of the new machine makes it possible, for example, to weave gigantic surfaces without seams. Now artists can finally make that big statement.”

Otobong Nkanga X TextielLab

The internationally renowned artist Otobong Nkanga (born 1974 in Kano, Nigeria, based in Antwerp) has the honour of inaugurating the new acquisition to the TextielLab. Nkanga will make a series of four tapestries. What she’ll do exactly remains to be seen. “That’s the fun part. I will get to know the machine, in close collaboration with Stef Miero, master weaver at the TextielLab. Playing with yarns, volumes, and textures. Seeing what happens. Going from one discovery to the next. That’s what I’m looking forward to.” The four-part series that Nkanga’s creating in the TextielLab will be shown for the first time in her solo exhibition in Kunsthaus Bregenz in the autumn of 2021.

The TextielLab

The TextielLab is both a professional workplace and knowledge institute. A place with state-of-the-art machines and technology, as well as expertise and knowledge, to carry-out innovative textile projects. The possibility to develop cutting-edge textiles in collaboration with the best craftsmen and machines makes the TextielLab a treasured creation space for designers and artists from all over the world. Both young talent and established artists, from the Netherlands and beyond, make use of this testing ground. Nkanga has been loyal to the TextielLab for many years. “I get all the space and time I need to do research, to experiment, to try out new materials and techniques. This is immensely valuable to me. I also get a lot of inspiration from the contact with people in the lab, the knowledge that is available, and the other artists and designers I meet there.”

Future plans for TextielLab

As of this year, the TextielLab is part of the Dutch Basic Cultural Infrastructure. The TextielLab wants to use this government subsidy, which will guarantee additional income for four years, to professionalise its activities. In the coming four years, the lab will not only invest in machines, but will also devote itself to digitalisation, research projects, and talent development programmes, organise symposiums and masterclasses, and strengthen its role as a connector between artists and clients.

In response to the worldwide covid-19 pandemic, the TextielLab rapidly digitalised its work processes the past year. Despite the (travel) restrictions, artists were able to continue their textile projects at the TextielLab, digitally, or in a safe manner in the lab.










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