Lottozero / textile laboratories

Lottozero is a center for textile research and networking in Prato, Italy.

Our mission: creating a fertile environment for textile research and an international base for networking in the textile sector.
We encourage and support the development of emerging talent of textile design through international talent scouting and targeted residencies in our headquarters in Prato, one of the main textile districts of Europe.
We bring talented, motivated, young European designers to Prato. We initiate an exchange between traditional textile production companies, by showing them new means for creative innovation, and young textile designers, by putting them in contact with companies who have the technical know-how necessary to produce their creations.

In our Design Office we design textiles, we help companies and textile designers get in touch with one another, we search for the best new styles and trends. We also help with the practical production of many designs by up and coming textile and fashion designers.

Someone described our textile laboratories as a Fab Lab for textile design, and we love it! Knitting, Silkscreen printing, felting, weaving, dying, sewing, laser cutting... you name it! Our labs are open to anyone that wants to use them.

We invite people from all over the world to our residency project in Prato, we are open to propositions and at the end of the stay we hold an exhibition in our Kunsthalle.

Finally, the Lottozero headquarter is quite big, overall about 400 m2, it’s a beautiful space and we share it with other artists, designers, creatives and whoever would like
to work there.

One way we finance our operation is by creating wonderful scarf collections with talented designers from all over the world.