TEXTILE COLLECTION

The Antoni de Montpalau Textile Collection (AdM) is an initiative dedicated to preserving, documenting, and disseminating textiles, with a particular focus on their aesthetic dimension—an aspect often overlooked both in industrial contexts and within the applied arts.

The name Antoni de Montpalau pays tribute to writer Joan Perucho and the protagonist of his novel Històries naturals.

The collection is continually growing, mainly through donations, and currently comprises more than twenty thousand pieces.

One of the main objectives of the Antoni de Montpalau Textile Collection is to share its holdings through exhibitions, research, collaborations with newspapers and magazines, occasional publications, and loans, provided that the necessary safety and conservation conditions are met.

The Collection has also established partnerships with educational institutions, enabling fashion and textile art students to undertake internships at the AdM Collection.

Founded in 2004, the AdM Collection began to make its holdings known in 2008 through collaborations with the Abbey of Montserrat and with the Calendari Serra d’Or, which featured the collection’s section on Modernista textiles, as well as through the exhibition Weaving Glamour, presented at Casa Arimon in Sabadell. Since then, the collection has been showcased in Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, Valladolid, Alicante and Teruel, among other cities.

The Antoni de Montpalau Foundation has long collaborated with institutions such as the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa, the Museo del Traje in Madrid and the Museu d’Història de Catalunya, among many others, as well as with leading fashion design schools throughout the country. The collection has also loaned pieces to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Museo de la Alhambra de Granada, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museo Calouste Gulbenkian, Sala Canal de Isabell II and the Monestir de Pedralbes.

Textiles have always served as a key vehicle for cultural exchange and influence, both nearby and across great distances. Although the collection takes the Catalan sphere as its starting point —for many years the most significant textile centre in Spain— it also comprises numerous pieces of international scope.

The collection encompasses nearly all textile typologies: sumptuary fabrics, tapestry and interior textiles, fashion garments, accessories, household linen, as well as documentary materials related to the textile world —including drawings, sketches, patterns, photographs, books and magazines, advertisements and small printed ephemera.