Current projects
Local Color

TextileLab
Local Color is a two-year project researching the conditions for a regenerative city that facilitates the growth of local biochromes to be used for closed-loop, local production on a small city scale. Tracks4Crafts

TextileLab
Tracks4Crafts explores and transforms the transfer of traditional craft knowledge to increase the social and economic appreciation of crafts and align them with a forward-looking heritage approach in Europe. shemakes

TextileLab
shemakes empowers future female innovators of the sustainable fashion industry through inspiration, skills and networks to bridge the gender gap in the textile and clothing sector.Culture.Fashion

TextileLab
Culture.Fashion is an open, value-driven network of people and organisations who want to work together on a future-proof fashion sector in the Netherlands.Hybrid Lab Network

Open Wetlab
Hybrid Lab Network is a European consortium that improves and innovates STEAM education, particularly in the field of biosciences.Reflow

TextileLab
Reflow was a three-year European research project, looking into the flow of materials through our cities.Fabricademy

TextileLab
Fabricademy focuses on combining the knowledge of traditional and future craftsmanship to work towards new ways of designing and producing for the slowly changing textile and fashion-industry.Textile and Clothing Business Labs

TextileLab
TCBL developed transformative business models for the textile and clothing sector in Europe.Fab Academy

FabLab
The Fab Academy provides instruction and supervises investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication.Closed projects
HOPECHEST2090

TextileLab
On the newly emerged Wadden island of Zaankogerland, historian Stientje Molenaar is researching worn and household textiles from after the Great Flood. It is the year 2090. Textile is the most precious possession in a person’s lifetime.Craft in Abundance

TextileLab
In collaboration with TextileLab Amsterdam, designer Charlotte Bakkenes researches the importance and reinterpretation of traditional crafts techniques for the fashion industry. Aesthetics, crafts and technology together will lead to innovative materials, processes and techniques.WearPure

TextileLab
WearPure is material research project that explores how we can create new materials that actively purify the environment from CO2.Fabrics and Fabrication

TextileLab
Master Industrial Design students worked on design projects that focus on the unethical and environmental unfriendly realities of the current textile and clothing industry.Matérialités Futures

TextileLab
Matérialités Futures is a course at EnsAD during which students will learn about biofabricating dyes and materials from TextileLab Amsterdam.Fabschoolino

Maker Education Lab
Waag developed the Fabschoolino, a mini-computer you could solder together and program yourself.TextileLab Amsterdam

TextileLab
The TextileLab Amsterdam is a lab for creatives interested in experimenting with craftsmanship, technology and digital fabrication for the textile and clothing industry.Platform Maker Education

Maker Education Lab
Platform Maker Education gave an impuls to the bottom-up maker education movement in The Netherlands.Dutch Design Week

FabLab Amsterdam

FabLab
At FabLab Amsterdam anyone can realise their ideas, and with the aid of digital equipment, transform those ideas into prototypes and products.