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News, press and opportunities from the British Textile Biennial


Jasleen Kaur's Sociomobile inside The Exchange, Blackburn during BTB21
A huge congratulations to Jasleen Kaur on her Turner Prize win last night! It’s great to see this work get such recognition.
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British Textile Biennial 2025 announced for 2 October – 2 November 2025
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Homegrown/Homespun kurta on display at Blackburn Museum
At this year's National Festival of Making, we launched our Homegrown/Homespun Kurta!
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Close up of a wedding dress in the Material Memory exhibition
The Material Memory online exhibition is now live on the Lancashire Textile Gallery website.
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An old photo of Blackburn Museum
Earlier this week Blackburn Museum celebrated their 150th birthday.
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Artist Margo Selby sat in her studio.
Co-commission with Margo Selby
As part of Season 6 of the National Festival of Making’s Art in Manufacturing programme, we have co-commissioned an artist residency with British textile artist and designer of woven textiles Margo Selby, in collaboration with Standfast & Barrack.
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BTB Advisory Group

06/11/2023
The British Textile Biennial is over for another year and we’re now looking for people to join our new British Textile Biennial Advisory group!
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Photo of a spinning machine.
Our friends at Mourne Textiles have just announced their latest Crowdfunding project. This is an important initiative that could bring the UK a step closer to creating homegrown, homespun linen.
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Today we’re pleased to be able begin sharing content from the Lancashire Textile Gallery, a new online resource that brings together objects and artefacts held by museums, archives and manufacturers from across the county.
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Banner Culture Installed in Brierifled Mill (now Northlight)

Banner Culture Book

13/12/2022
Mid Pennine Arts are delighted to be able to offer a 104 page hardback publication documenting the Banner Culture exhibition from British Textile Biennial 2019.
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Lubaina Himid's Lost Threads installed in Gawthorpe Hall's Great Barn.
Today we received the news that we had been selected by the Arts Council as a new National Portfolio