The Fondazione Chierese per il Tessile e per il Museo del Tessile (Chieri Foundation for the Textile and for the Textile Museum) was set up on 8 November 1997, with the participation of the Municipality of Chieri, the Piedmont Region, the Turin Province, the Chamber of Commerce and of 50 founder members representing the major cotton textile industries in Chieri and in Piedmont. The establishment of the Foundation followed the opening, one year before, of the Textile Museum, in its temporary location in the XV cent. Santa Chiara Convent (later Levi's weaving mill), where textile machines and equipment of the past are displayed, waiting for the restoration of an ancient industrial building, named "Imbiancheria del Vajro", as its final seat. Central in this project, indeed also its starting point, is a textile tradition dating back to the XIII cent. and still to-day outstanding for a number of factories that make of Chieri the most important centre for the cotton textile industry in Piedmont, offering a wide range of products (household linen, curtains, carpets, upholstery fabrics, clothing fabrics, embroideries and prints, technical fabrics for industry, textile design). Main aims of the Fondazione are to promote the image of the Chieri textile industry in Italy and abroad, to create a collective trade mark, to foster the technical training of the personnel and to set up a technological laboratory, as provided for in the Statute. Our purpose in setting up the Museum is to divulge the knowledge and the values of this peculiar local activity, in combination with the other activities in the area. The Foundation will be pleased, on request:
To supply further information about the Chieri textile activities;
To assist in establishing relations between customers and suppliers;
To acquire and divulge any technical innovation appearing in the field of textile, concerning both materials and manufacturing methods.

Fondazione Chierese per il Tessile

e per il Museo del Tessile
Via G. Demaria, 10
10023 Chieri (TO)
Telefono: +39 (011) 94.27.421
Fax: +39 (011) 94.90.763
Email: info@fondazionetessilchieri.com