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Heimtextil is the industry's most important global event for interior textiles, interior design and interior trends, and it cannot get bigger than that. On 14 January next, the entire industry will converge in Munich for the four-day Heimtextil 2025. We speak to Olaf Schmidt, Vice-President Textiles & Textile Technologies at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition, organisers of the mega event.

A new report marks the first piece of consumer research that WRAP has conducted on home textiles and provides a timely follow-on from the organisation's citizen insights report on clothing longevity in the UK, published in October 2022.

As a leading international trade fair with participants from 129 nations, Heimtextil 2023 was a global stage where textile sustainability was holistically mapped — with products and innovations that have shown that scalable and sustainable innovations are not a contradiction in terms. Olaf Schmidt, Vice-President (Textiles & Textile Technologies) at Messe Frankfurt talks to texfash.com

When aesthetics were coming at a price too dear, a techie-packaging pair of friends seized the gap in the market to launch a “reasonably priced” home fashion brand — Vaaree. A year on, it has had one seed round, and in the last few months the 50% month-on-month growth, brings hope for greater things in the future. A texfash.com exclusive.

Far away in the Iberian Peninsula of Portugal, a textile designer has developed a patent-pending solution from the abundantly available cork to handcraft sustainable rugs using traditional weaving techniques. Meet Susana Godinho.