Re-framing Consumer Markets

TCBL HANDBOOKS

RE-FRAMING CONSUMER MARKETS

Co-funded by Horizon 2020

ANNEX III TO TCBL D 4.3 - 30 JUNE 2018

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INTRODUCTION This guide describes the rationale, implementation and expected impact of TCBL activities in Re-framing Consumer Markets as well as the engagement of TCBL Associate Enterprises in the participating pilots. It concerns activities bringing together TCBL partners and Associates exploring new potentials for the T&C industry along a disruption/tradition mix.

The starting point consists of two Business Pilots, BioShades and Digital Heritage, both having an impact on design and marketing (e.g. fashion) in relation to consumer orientations towards sustainability, through the shockingly disruptive impact of radical sustainability in the first case and the re-actualisation of traditional processes and products in the other.

Finally, here the emphasis is on meeting (while anticipating and shaping) consumer expectations, through design and marketing approaches that propose new lifestyles through both epiphanies (the first) and reconciliation (the second). This guidebook first explores what it means to Re-frame Consumer Markets in the context of TCBL and the two Business Pilots, and then develops the Case Studies of the two Business Pilots.

RATIONALE TCBL is creating a value-based business ecosystem that aims to re-build supply chains that can be alternative to the dominating, brand-driven market structures of the T&C industry. Business Pilots are restructuring the organisation of production – in particular garment production – to reinforce the roles of independent designers and shift from overproduction to short runs, on the one hand, and re-building value chains around natural fibres and eco-sustainable production methods on the other.

In parallel, however, it is necessary to work on the demand side, exploring new market spaces where sustainable, quality fashion can take hold. One of the long-term TCBL goals is to develop services for a customer-driven supply chain; yet today customer needs and wants (the demand side) are for the large part shaped by increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques (the supply side) in order to drive consumption. Breaking out of this impasse requires a forwardthinking vision exercise that is capable of re-framing the way the market can respond to genuine (and not constructed) customer desires; that is the broader purpose of these Business Pilots.

IMPLEMENTATION As with the other strategic intervention axes in TCBL, the goal of re-framing consumer markets is driven by concrete business cases defined through the interplay between the explorations of the Business Labs and the specific needs and issues thrown up by TCBL Associates. The two Business Pilots constituting the evidence base here are: •

BioShades. This is an experimental exploration of the possibility of dyeing fabrics using bacteria, first developed in the bio-hack laboratories of the Waag Making Lab. To date, this pilot has gained significant interest in the maker community, as other TCBL Business Labs are beginning to explore the industrial potential in terms of controlled bacteria production on the one hand and testing the qualities and features on the other.

As this pilot is still in a very experimental phase, it has to date garnered the interest of the TCBL business community though it has not yet been possible to test the technique in industrial settings. Nonetheless, the impact on public and business perceptions of what could be has been significant. The idea that one of the most polluting processes in textile production – dyeing – could instead occur at close to zero cost and

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environmental impact, is shocking. This is thus an example of a process innovation for the T&C industry that is both technologically disruptive and radically sustainable.

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Digital Heritage. This pilot focuses on the digitisation and re-organisation of textile archives (in companies with a minimum of history so as to have them) and their reinterpretation for new designs. The body of this guidebook discusses this pilot in detail, showing both the technical aspects of digitisation as well as the brand value that can be generated by valorising a company’s (and a territory’s) heritage.

Of broader interest is the way this pilot highlights the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity in the fashion industry. Many of the elements of the TCBL approach are rooted in tradition – frugality, craftsmanship, socialisation, “slowness”, etc.

– with the agility and efficiencies brought by new technologies and process innovation making their re-visitation possible. This is thus an example of how continuity and tradition can play a role in offering a market alternative to over-consumption while maintaining the qualities of novelty that are at the heart of fashion design.

POTENTIAL I MPACT What emerges bottom up from the evidence of the two Business Pilots is a synthesis of apparently contradictory elements – disruption and sustainability, tradition and modernity – that points towards a common vision. The organisation of the #TCBL_2018 conference in Prato gave us the further opportunity to codify that vision and assess its resonance in the T&C business community. The set of the four keywords – Digital | Human | Circular | Transparent – is in fact a chain of terms that, individually, are each ‘hot topics’, generally carried forward in separate silos. By juxtaposing them – Digital and Human and Circular and Transparent – a composite yet coherent market space can be imagined, following a similar process of attaining a synthesis of apparent contradictions.

This vision was met with great interest from the participants at #TCBL_2018, with the Advisory Board commenting on both the scope and the focus of what TCBL is coming to represent. The impact to be gained is thus a function of the ability of this vision to take concrete shape through the actual market experiments in the coming months, together with the way it informs the future developments of the two Business Pilots.

PLANS TO SPREAD F URTHER BUSINESS INVOLVEMENT IN THIS BUSINESS PILOT Work in the coming year for the Business Pilots contributing to the strategic axis of Re-framing consumer markets will proceed along two complementary fronts: •

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TCBL will give further shape to its market vision through the branding and mission components of its governance modelling and exploitation planning activities. This is taking place through collaboration with key TCBL partners and associates with a specific expertise in marketing and branding.

The two Business Pilots – BioShades and Digital Heritage – will continue to attract new players, the first as the biological dyeing method begins to move from the laboratory to the factory floor and the second as new alliances are formed with textile and clothing collections and museums across the TCBL network.

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CASE STUDY: BIOSHADES BACKGROUND 1 The textile industry is one of the most polluting in the world, with the dyeing of fibres and textiles being one of the most environmentally disastrous processes involved in it. Chemicals are released daily in nature destroying the environment around us to satisfy the colour demands that designers, industry and consumers create. Very few options are being explored in this fast changing fashion, clothing and textile industry, in which the list of chemicals is only expanding.

Programs like DETOX from GreenPeace are trying to get attention to this issue, trying to identify the real environmental costs we are paying and asking for more research in this field to substitute chemicals and procedures with less harmful ones.

THE OPPORTUNITY In the frame of TCBL, the TextileLab Amsterdam and Athens’ Making Lab began in 2016 and 2017 to research about bacterial dyes as an alternative, on one side focusing on creative experimentation and on the other side exploring scalability and impact of this process and outcomes. Together with other TCBL key players in exploring relevant candidates, documenting the process and evaluating the possible impact of this project, work is ongoing on bringing these experiments to real industrial life.

Bacterial dyes

TCBL SOLUTIONS The proposed approach is based on the fact that various bacterial strains produce pigments while growing. So far, it has been demonstrated that such bacteria-produced pigments can be successfully used to dye different kinds of textiles, including cotton and silk-based ones. Dyeing is performed at room temperature with no need for salt or other auxiliaries’ addition and results This text includes a summary of the previously published guidebook “BioShades Business Case” available at: https://issuu.com/tcbl/docs/bioshades_business_case 1

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in high colour strength and stability to washing, perspiration and light. It can take place either in solid or in liquid bacteria cultures (even after sterilization).

Colours that could be obtained by the cultivation of various bacterial strains

The first results have been very promising and numerous companies (TCBL Associate Enterprises and others) have expressed their strong interest in the bacteria dyeing process.

Nonetheless, a key issue is still to be solved for the method to become applicable on industrial scale, namely the recovery/extraction of the bacteria-produced pigment from the bacteria culture in powder form, so that it can be further handled like common textile dyes.

The goal is that through this Business Pilot, TCBL could answer many questions around the textile and clothing dyeing processes, providing a non-chemical solution and an organic natural cold dye bath, lowering chemical-environmental impact of dyeing and possibly creating a higher energy efficiency for this industry. Testing this with real industrial partners for real life impact is where we see this going.

LESSONS LEARNED In order to support the engagement of the interested companies, as well as to underline the radical nature of the BioShades approach, it has been necessary to diffuse the practice as widely as possible to different labs – TCBL Labs, FabLabs, and others – to build a movement and spread the knowledge.

This insight resulted in the organisation and delivery of a networked, distributed BioShades event in 14 locations with 20 local instructors, 150 workshop participants, 350 event visitors; 5 articles (newspapers, websites, etc.) and 4 videos. The impact of this event has been to raise awareness about the kind of solutions that indeed are possible but above all to transfer the knowledge about how to grow and use bacteria. In addition, by involving TCBL Labs (and attracting new ones) with differing areas of technical expertise, the process of exploring industrial feasibility has been greatly accelerated.

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TESTIMONIAL: MARIA K ANELLI2

“I’m a chemical engineer and currently a PhD student at the National Technical University of Athens. My PhD concerns the development of biotechnological processes for the modification of synthetic fabrics in order to improve their properties. One of my recent projects was the use of microbial pigments for the preparation of microbial fabrics.

“Bacterial pigments are part of natural dyes. Natural dyes had been used widely up until the early 19th century. Then in 1856 William Perkin produced the first synthetic dye – aniline – and then things changed. The industry turned to synthetic dyes because of their lower costs. Today however, things are changing once again. The natural dyes have gained much attention because of their advantages: biocompatibility, biodegradability, and the fact that the production of bacterial dyes through fermentation processes is fast, easy and has a less negative environmental impact.

“So, through our lab’s collaboration with MIRTEC we became a part of TCBL. This way, we obtained the bacterial strain of bacterium lividum, which can be found on the skin of amphibians such as frogs and the red bag salamander. This bacterium produces a blue-purple pigment – violacein – which has anti-tumoral, anti-oxidant, and anti-microbial properties. We thought to use this pigment to produce antimicrobial fabrics which could potentially in the future be used for the fight against superbugs (multi-drug resistant bacteria which are very dangerous for humans).

“So, we produced violacein in scale up bioreactors and we used it for dyeing synthetic polyamide fabrics. These fabrics presented very good colour fastness against alkaline and acid perspiration, also after washing with water, and they also presented very good antimicrobial properties against very dangerous fungi and bacteria. In this context, a few months ago we coordinated the participation of Athens in the networked BioShades workshop, in which people from the textile industry and the School of Arts attended and we had a very productive exchange of experience, information and ideas.”

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The testimonials are excerpts from presentations at #TCBL_2018 on May 30 th, 2018, in Prato.

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TESTIMONIAL: GUY BUYLE

“Centexbel is a non-profit technology centre in Belgium that has a strong focus on textiles. We help companies with certification of textiles, testing and R&D development. We do some of the standard tests for textiles like physical testing and chemical analysis, but we also have one testing lab that deals with the microbiology aspect of textiles One example of that is testing the ability of the special suits worn by medical teams to protect against viruses such as Ebola; we are one of the few labs in Europe who do the testing and certification of this type of fabric. That means we are used to work with viruses and bacteria.

“In the case of BioShades, we first need to test reproducibility; even if you want to make unique pieces you have to have an idea of the colour and do colour measurements. Another important aspect is fastness; when you expose a fabric to indoor or outdoor light or if you wash or rumple it you want the colour to remain. Finally, even if we’re using natural dyes, there can still be harmful effects for humans such as skin irritation or allergies.

“Finally, looking to the future we have to see how to scale up the method; if you want to dye fabrics we need to be able to treat minimum quantities of material in a uniform and reproduceable way. One approach is to grow the bacteria in the factory, which however requires that every textile company install the right equipment. The indirect approach instead would have one central player who grows the bacteria, extracts the dyestuff and then produces a substance that can be used with more or less standard dyeing methods. These are the issues we’re looking at in BioShades to be able to adopt bacteria dyeing across the industry.”

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CASE STUDY: DIGITAL HERITAGE BACKGROUND Textile and Clothing archives can be an important source of inspiration for the design of contemporary collections. With the appropriate marketing and communication strategies (i.e., heritage marketing) in place, textile archives can further highlight the culture heritage and value to the public and clients in particular. However, de-industrialisation has caused the loss of many textile archives and there is a general lack of a conservation culture in the current industry.

Even if some companies have maintained their historical archives, these are usually not accessible. Historical material, however – sample books and data sheets, in the case of textiles – is of great value, as it can help preserve, and transmit, the technical know-how of a district to future generations. Indeed, textile archives can play an increasing role in providing inspiration to modern designers and competitive advantage to existing businesses developing corporate marketing strategies (i.e. heritage marketing). Archives therefore could represent an opportunity for the T&C industry, if only they were properly stored, catalogued and digitised. Moreover, the connection of a contemporary product with archive materials – either through a faithful reproduction or a free reinterpretation - could greatly contribute to the (re)construction of the value chain of the product itself, distinguishing it as "unique" compared to mass market products as the result of a decades- or even centuries-old history.

THE OPPORTUNITY In the collections of leading contemporary designers, we often find reminiscences of styles from earlier times. They take inspiration from other times and places and reinterpret them in light of the principles and values of modernity. Whilst citations and returns to the styles and fashions of the past regularly reappear on catwalks and international fashion markets, they are generally updated by a contemporary interpretation of the original lines, cuts, patterns and textiles.

Indeed, more and more frequently, creative directors and fashion designers initiate the process of creating their collections by consulting textile and fashion archives managed by privatelyowned museums or public documentation centres. This allows them to draw inspiration from their contents with a view to generating new creations which blend all the charm and know-how of the past with new trends and technologies. Heritage, then, becomes a fundamental source of information and inspiration.

Samples Book at Prato Textile Museum

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Conscious of the potential of local textile heritage as a source of inspiration and innovation, the Design Lab at the Prato Textile Museum has experimented a business case in the framework of the TCBL project, related to the enhancement of local heritage as a means to boost creativity and promote new marketing and communication strategies focusing on quality, creativity, cultural added value and heritage marketing.

The business case aims to highlight the creative potential of new generations of designers, offer innovative approaches for future collections development and to build new “Heritage based” business models in the T&C sector.

TCBL SOLUTIONS Within this context, the Digital Heritage business case, led by the Municipality of Prato and TCBL’s Design Lab based in the Textile Museum of Prato, supported by Lottozero Textile Lab, aimed to exploit the business potential of cultural heritage digitalisation and to demonstrate how heritage marketing can add value to textile companies in possession of historical archives. The business case started its work by raising awareness on the importance of archives, through several workshops with textile companies located in Prato. During the workshops, participants could explore concepts such as developing new ideas of cultural, promotional activities from archives exploiting social platforms; do a technical analysis of Museum historical archives; exercise with technical design and digital printing; and take a two-day creative design methodology training aimed at providing tools for archive material reworking as a base for the development of new projects. Following these activities, companies were able to express their interest and consensus in officially joining the business case. This phase also saw a session of configuration of the Heritage Manager, which was developed by the University of Florence in Prato.

Building on the activities from the first phase, the following activities were set out in the second phase and implemented between July 2017 and May 2018: • • • • •

Development of a cataloguing software for museum and company archives Customising of platform by companies according to their preferences and needs Software training for companies Small-scale selection of heritage material Continuation of awareness training/training activities

DEVELOPMENT OF HERITAGE MANAGER This is a software that consists of a digital database of materials and products. The Heritage Manager allows browsing the available database, receiving information about selected textile samples, and saving your own selection. The figure below presents a screenshot of the Heritage Manager.

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The Heritage Manager software

COLLABORATION WITH T EN T EXTILE COMPANIES Following the awareness raising activities, ten textile companies in the Prato area expressed their interest in the case and were selected to work and explore through testing and experimenting potential heritage-based innovations and creative processes such as archives digitisation, creative re-interpretation of textile heritage, new marketing strategies based on heritage and value of their archives.

CATALOGUING CAMPAIGN W ITH PARTICIPATING COMPANIES After the installation of the Heritage Manager in each of the ten companies, the team of the Heritage Manager carried out a cataloguing campaign. Professional photographers took highquality images of the archival materials to be inserted into the database of the Heritage Manager along with data sheets. The pilot companies further received training to become able to use the Heritage Manager and could customize the Heritage Manager according to their preferences and needs.

DESIGN CONSULTING At this stage of the Pilot, some workshops were organised with designers and the ten involved companies to discuss the possibilities of using their historic archive materials for the development of innovative projects. Lottozero Textile Lab coordinated this step and selected five designers to work with five pioneer companies (Marini Industrie, Texmoda Tessuti, Lanificio Bisentino, Inseta, Industria Italiana Filati) on the most promising projects emerged during the first phase. After the workshops, individual meetings at the textile company premises have taken place, in which designers have explored the archives of each company and shared inspirations and ideas with the entrepreneurs. Later, the pilot companies designed their projects based on the consulting received on how to re-interpret their archives.

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Designer Aki at Lanificio Bisentino

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION CONSULTING The individual pilot work in the pioneer companies was completed by additional workshops and training modules focusing on the storytelling of the company, heritage marketing and the enhancement of the archives. At the very beginning, mentoring sessions were used to further review marketing and communication strategies using the new heritage approach. After the completion of the projects, marketing and communication consulting continued to ensure that the heritage collection of textiles remained a core part of future strategies.

CREATING A NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Five international designers have cooperated with the five pioneer companies in synergy with Lottozero / textile laboratories, in charge for the development and coordination of the artists’ residencies. They have worked closely to make each company archives freely accessible, together with the experience and wealth of technical knowledge acquired over time. This has unleashed unexpected waves of creativity, energy and the desire to provide an innovative reading of the historical collections both for the reinterpretation of fabrics and for the design of visual elements that characterize their presentations.

As a result of these activities, the five pioneer companies have learned how to re-interpret their archives and to develop innovative projects based on them.

The partnership with young fashion designers has contributed to exploit the companies’ heritage in an innovative way and offered new approaches to develop future textile and clothing collections, as shown in the figures below. It has suggested new ways for the companies to work with young designers and to learn from their creative potential.

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Companies have also learnt how important is to communicate the deep soul of their brand, not just their performance, to the consumer, so as to make history an added value and a unique characterisation of the brand itself.

Through this business case, companies have developed new business models which consider cultural heritage as a main asset.

New approaches to future textile and clothing collections based on company archives

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New approaches to future textile and clothing collections based on company archives

TIMESCALE The activities have followed a detailed planning, articulated in three different phases. The first was related to the awareness raising activities and the development of the Heritage Manager, concluded in June 2017. The second phase started in July 2017 until June 2018. It consisted mainly in the three activities described above, namely: ▪ Cataloguing campaign with participating companies ▪ Design consulting ▪ Marketing and communication consulting A third phase of activities, yet to be started, concerns the scaling up and out of the business case by involving the wider TCBL community as described below.

LESSONS LEARNED So far, the pilot leaders have received very positive feedback from all the companies involved.

These have been improving their knowledge and are willing to collaborate further to increase the value of their T&C collections. For example, a company has produced a short video clip to 13

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document their participation in the business case. This was displayed alongside a small selection of items from their archives at an exhibition stand in Paris, Premiere Vision fair. The pilot leaders are also witnessing an awareness and knowledge shift in those companies: “Awareness that they now have something in their hands that has a value� [extract from a Case leader interview]. For some companies the digitization of their archives was already on the agenda, but they did not have the resources or the skills to do so. TCBL has enabled them to highlight cultural heritage to clients and the general public. Another key lesson has been that cooperation between companies and designers is always possible when they work together on the basis of a project and the right communication channels are put in place.

The work carried out in the companies’ historical archives was a unique opportunity to rediscover forgotten materials, rich in potential and stimuli for new ideas that became real inspirations for the fall / winter 2019 - 2020 collection. This includes a mood proposal that was born from the story told by old hand-made colour charts, scraps of threads, notes even hinted at on yellowed photographs that tell of an experience accumulated over a hundred years of life.

The reinterpretation of the company's historical past and the close relationship with the territory have also triggered a process of revisiting and renewing the coordinated image, graphics, presentation of folders and products at fashion fairs.

FUTURE PLANS In the next months the Digital Heritage business case will move into its last phase. Activities within this phase will mainly include the involvement of other TCBL actors and companies to which the results of the business case will be transferred.

The last pilot phase will be carried out with the aim to transform it into a paid service for companies so as to assure its sustainability. While the Heritage Manager is a free software, training and consultancy for companies is resource-intensive, which points at the Open Source scheme as suitable to the case. To be able to scale the service, it will be crucial to link with other business case teams, in particular with the Independents. In fact, marketing and communication consulting involves the role of independent designers showing to textile companies the potential of their archival materials from a different perspective and giving them additional inspiration from the fashion design industry. This role can be played by some of the members of the designer network that was developed as part of the Independents case. More generally, close collaboration with other TCBL actors is needed to fasten the diffusion of the service developed as a result of this business case.

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TESTIMONIALS

CHIARA LUCCHESI, INDUSTRIA ITALIANA FILATI http://www.industriaitalianafilati.it/en/ “A very positive experience, one of the most interesting in recent years. The designers brought a completely new point of view, out of the rules of the Prato textile industry, they were able to pick up vibrations, perhaps more than other designers integrated into the territory, they helped us to see things with their eyes".

ALBERTO PESTELLI, TEXMODA http://www.texmodatessuti.com/en/ “We have welcomed the idea to digitize our archive as we had a richness that was unexploited in our company. We started this work initially accompanied by the Textile Museum. So far, we 15

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have already about three thousand samples already photographed and catalogued in our database that is now fundamental for the creation of new ideas and new collections. Along the creation of the digital archive, we are working also to create the physical archive. For our company this is an ambitious project.”

UBERTO CIATTI, INSETA http://www.inseta.it/en/ “During my thirty years activity as a textile entrepreneur, I have created an important archive of nearly 25.000 items that is more and more gaining importance on the eyes of my Italian and international customers. Thanks to this business case, we have had the possibility to digitize part of our archive. This is a work that we have started with great passion and engagement and we’ll conclude investing our time and resources.”

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DOCUMENT INFORMATION REVISION HISTORY This Handbook is published online as Annex III to TCBL Deliverable 4.3, “T&C Business Systems: Engagement and Impact”. Authors: Athanase Contargyris (MIRTEC), Jesse Marsh (Prato), Bill Macbeth (TCoE) and Filippo Mazzariol (UCV). This document in particular was edited by Athanase Contargyris (MIRTEC), Besnik Mehmeti and Jesse Marsh (PRATO).

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07.06.2018

A. Contargyris

MIRTEC

Table of Contents

V0.2

19.06.2018

Filippo Mazzariol

UCV

First draft

V0.3

26.06.2018

Besnik Mehmeti

PRATO

Provision of Digital Heritage Case

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30.06.2018

A. Contargyris

MIRTEC

Provision of Bioshades case

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31.07.2018

Jesse Marsh

PRATO

Layout and edits

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07.08.2018

A. Contargyris

MIRTEC

Final version

STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise.

Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.

COPYRIGHT This work is licensed by the TCBL Consortium under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License, 2015-2016. For details, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The TCBL Consortium, consisting of: Municipality of Prato (PRATO) Italy; German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research - Center for Management Research (DITF) Germany; IstitutoSuperiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Italy; Skillaware (SKILL) Italy; Oxford Brookes University (OBU) UK; imec (IMEC) Belgium; Tavistock Institute (TAVI) UK; Materials Industrial Research & Technology Center S.A. (MIRTEC) Greece; Waag Society (WAAG) Netherlands; Huddersfield & District Textile Training Company Ltd (TCOE) UK; eZavod (eZAVOD) Slovenia; ConsorzioArca (ARCA) Italy; Unioncamere del Veneto (UCV) Italy; Hellenic Clothing Industry Association (HCIA) Greece; Sanjotec - Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico (SANJO) Portugal; Reginnova NE (Reginnova) Romania, Centexbel (CTB) Belgium, InstitutFrançais de la Mode (IFM) France, IAAC (FabTextiles) Spain, Cleviria (Cleviria) Italy, and Sqetch (Sqetch) Netherlands.

DISCLAIMER All information included in this document is subject to change without notice. The Members of the TCBL Consortium make no warranty of any kind with regard to this document, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Members of the TCBL Consortium shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The TCBL project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme for research, technology development, and innovation under Grant Agreement n. 646133.

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