As part of the upcoming BTB10 exhibition, British Textile Biennial and The Harris are seeking to co-commission a new interactive artwork incorporating textiles for audiences of all ages, creating a playful and participatory way into the ideas explored throughout the exhibition.

British Textile Biennial will celebrate a decade of commissioning with a major retrospective at The Harris in Preston, bringing together a selection of its headline commissions from the past ten years. The Festival is taking a pause in 2027 to mark its tenth anniversary with this survey show and will return with a bold new programme across East Lancashire in October 2028.

Gawthorpe Textiles Collection (GTC) and British Textiles Biennial (BTB) are very pleased to announce a creative and dynamic new partnership which will see BTB take on the running of GTC, working with the Gawthorpe Textile Collection board of trustees to increase access and engagement both locally and nationally with this nationally significant collection.

‘FROM THE MOOR - A Retrospective of Aitor Throup’s Imagination’ will open at the Burnley Empire from 30th October to 2nd November 2025 as the finale of this year's British Textile Biennial.

We're pleased to launch our new free digital guide for this year's British Textile Biennial.

‘FROM THE MOOR - A Retrospective of Aitor Throup’s Imagination’ will open at the Burnley Empire from 30th October to 2nd November 2025 as the finale of this year's British Textile Biennial.

British Textile Biennial is fundraising to help further develop our participation programme through a Lancashire County Council funding scheme to match donations!

Join us at an Open Day celebrating the launch of The Legend of The Looms at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with the Arab British Centre.

A huge congratulations to Jasleen Kaur on her Turner Prize win last night! It’s great to see this work get such recognition.

British Textile Biennial 2025 announced for 2 October – 2 November 2025

At this year's National Festival of Making, we launched our Homegrown/Homespun Kurta!

The Material Memory online exhibition is now live on the Lancashire Textile Gallery website.

Earlier this week Blackburn Museum celebrated their 150th birthday.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Today we received the news that we had been selected by the Arts Council as a new National Portfolio