List of finalists out!

Main Street is now conveying the list of the 20 finalists, chosen from 249 participants to the public competition “DHG Art Factory, Prize for contemporary art”, intended to promote contemporary art and strengthen the link between industry and territory , in the name of research and creativity.

 “Quality, research, coherence with the subject, innovation and the state of being contemporary” as indicated in the announcement of public competition, (Article n. 11), were the basic judging critiria to pick out the finalists. The managers of the company declare:  “Just like the strenght of our materials , usable at any latitude, we chose the works with an immediate communicative strenght, able to join textile tradition – that is where we come from – together with our vision of this job, because Dyeinghousegallery is a work in progress that loves different cultural influences. We get convinced and seduced by what is new and different, by original points of view, because we want to develop and change, following new inspirations. It was a difficult selection, but what matters is that, whatever the professional Jury will decide, it will be definitely satisfactory, since each and every work has a strong personality. They were so satisfactory for us as to cherish the idea of proposing future cooperations to many of those artists”

 The 19 projects, selected by the Company, together with Anna Luana Tallarita’s – voted by ondine users, will be judged by a professional Jury, conprised of Gaia Gualtieri (Managing Director  of Main Street Srl) , Francesco Funghi (Director of the Vault Contemporary Art Gallery), Lorenzo Giusti (Curator of EX3 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Firenze), Livia Savorelli (Editorial Manager of Espoarte Contemporary Art Magazine) and Massimiliano Tonelli (Director of Artribune). By April 24^th they will decide who the winner is. The publication on www.dyeinghousegallery.com/artfactory will have to be considered official .

“DHG Art Factory, Prize for contemporary art” constitutes just the first of a series of initiatives that will make DHG - dyeinghousegallery brand (www.dyeinghousegallery.com) meet the art and culture world, new ideas and possible links between industry and creativity.

The finalists are: Ben Brown, Richard Biancalani, Francesca Bruni, Bunker108, Carlo Colli, Fausto Della Villa, diLo - Eugenia, Di.Segno studio creativo, Daniele Fabiani, Ettore Favini, Giulia Gaccione, Dario Paolo Insabella, Lato Zanetti, Kate McCarthy, Franco Menicagli, Elena Piccolboni, Nicoletta Scilimati, Alessia Silvestrelli, Spogo and Anna Luana Tallarita.

DHG Art Factory Prize Public competition closed - selections are starting

DHG Art Factory, Prize for contemporary art!...

New year new office…and there’s no better way to start it than calling a competition  for a new façade for the company… the competition, called “DHG Art Factory, Prize for contemporary art!” will end on the 29^th February and will allow all the artist to put themselves on the test with us. You can view and vote on the works in the competition on the website www.dyeinghousegallery.com and a Jury of art experts and managers of the company will judge them. The winner will receive a work contract for the realization of his/her idea and therefore the possibility to show his/her work on an entire façade!

The competition is still open, so if there is anybody among you who wish to have his/her occasion, we invite you to read the announcement of the public competition on the webpage www.dyeinghousegallery.com/artfactory  and send us your ideas.

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Over water and colour...

Established in 1954, our company does industrial dyeing on natural, synthetic and plant textile fibers; our plants are located in Tuscany, in the famous textile district of Prato. We realized a few years ago that small manufacturers requested more dyed fibers for their creations made of FELT, therefore we decided to combine our experience with their creativity in order to found a new project called: DYEINGHOUSEGALLERY (DHG).

The COLOUR is for sure the main element of our philosophy but also QUALITY is very important to us. On the Internet, you can find many suppliers of dyed fibers for felting, but we decided to stand out by utilizing high quality fibers in order to improve your hand-made creations in felt, making them look like real jewels.

In order to meet the demands of people working with FELT as well as casual hobbyists , we decided to offer our dyed textiles on an e-commerce website. We deal with many artisans and other customers from all over the world every day and we are very proud of this.

We offer combed and carded fibers, each one available in more than 100 colours, and we have EXTRA FINE MERINO WOOL, MAORI WOOL, BERGSCHAF WOOL, TUSSAH SILK, CASHMERE, SURI ALPACAS WOOL.  

 

We also made a PRE-FELT with our fantastic extra fine merino wool that we are selling by the meter. We have silk (CHIFFON e PONGEE) in various colours as well, made using NUNO FELT technique. Moreover, we introduced a few months ago the INDUSTRIAL THERMOFORMABLE FELT. Everything is 100% made in Italy.

When someone claims that our strength is in colour, though this is undeniably true, we answer that nonetheless the real ace up our sleeve is our passion: the passion for our job, for textile, for tradition of our city Prato, expression of Italian creativity since 1200. But it is also confidence in the future. LET’S COLOUR THE WORLD!!