At this autumn’s Textile Forum, which will be held at its central London venue, One Marylebone from October 14-15, 2015, top UK wools and tweeds will be seen along with laces, silks, fine cottons and leather.
“It will be our biggest exhibition since the first event 13 years ago,” Linda Laderman, the show’s co-founder and organiser said.At this autumn's Textile Forum, which will be held at its central London venue, One Marylebone from October 14-15, 2015, top UK wools and tweeds will#
“While Textile Forum has traditionally been particularly strong on womenswear fabrics, this autumn we will be balancing with a bigger selection of fabrics for men’s outwear and more choice for daywear,” she added.
Dashing Tweeds, best known for its innovative urban wovens, and Dugdale Bros, the last remaining cloth merchant in Huddersfield, will be showing for the first-time alongside regular exhibitors Hainsworth and Holland & Sherry.
The Wool Lab, which collaborates with the world’s most innovative and quality-oriented spinners and weavers, is returning with samples of fabrics in line with the leading fashion and textile trends.
British Alpaca Fashion Company too will return at this show and to complement the wools, will be top quality shirtings from Acorn and Ringhart.
Other first-timers include; Hantex, with a range of jersey, baby cord, canvas and batiks; A-Tex, a leading global provider packaging solutions, hang tags and labels and textile designers Eve Johnson and Lorna Doyle.
Also showing will be top silk companies James Hare, Bennett Silks, Henry Bertrand and Pongees; fancy fabric specialists Laurent Garigue, and bridalwear experts Michael’s Bridalwear and Platinum Bridal Fabrics.
“Textile Forum’s marketing slogan is ‘a touch of luxury’, said Amy Packham, Textile Forum’s new event director, who is driving the expansion of the show both in terms of exhibitors and visitors.
“And there is nothing better for designers than to have the opportunity to feel a fabric before deciding on whether it is perfect for their collections and in October, there will be hundreds of fabrics to touch,” she too added. (AR)
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