Materials Library

The Materials Library explores the origins of fibres that have long clothed and connected us. Developed through a collaboration between British Textile Biennial and The Making Rooms, it lays the foundation for a future Fabric Lab in Blackburn, envisioned as a space for shared experimentation and making with new materials. From seeds to samples, as well as finished products, the materials on display unfold stories of worldmaking, reflecting a diversity of practices that are simultaneously ancestral and emergent, offering different ways of thinking with and through materials.