TXTilecity

Navigate Toronto with TXTilecity – an interactive map that builds community knowledge by drawing together experiences and stories to show the significance of textiles in shaping the city’s social, cultural, economic and architectural terrain. Through the TXTilecity website and mobile app, encounter key locations and discover the role of textiles in defining the urban landscape from early garment manufacturing and the performing arts, to the rise of the fashion industry and contemporary design. Explore some of Toronto’s defining stories, meet some of the city’s greatest characters and experience its diverse history in sites brought to life in audio and video documentary accounts.

TXTilecity was produced by the Textile Museum of Canada in partnership with Year Zero One + [murmur] with support of the of the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canada Interactive Fund.