Textile Forum has announced its expansion for autumn to provide more sourcing options for designers looking for luxury fabrics. This autumn’s edition of Textile Forum will present stock and forward order fabrics, including British wools and tweeds, laces and silks, fine cottons and leathers with a variety of buttons, linings and labels. “It will be our biggest exhibition since the first event 13 years ago. While Textile Forum has traditionally been particularly strong on womenswear fabrics, especially those for occasion and bridal wear, this autumn we will be balancing these collections with a bigger selection of fabrics for men’s outwear and more choice for daywear,” explains Linda Laderman, the show’s co-founder and organiser. Textile Forum is scheduled on October 14-15, 2015, at its central London venue One Marylebone. Dashing Tweeds and Dugdale Bros will be showing for the first-time alongside regular exhibitors Hainsworth and Holland & Sherry. The Wool Lab and British Alpaca Fashion Company return, with 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 of brand identity products; and textile designers Eve Johnson and Lorna Doyle. Also showing will be silk companies James Hare, Bennett Silks, Henry Bertrand and Pongees (pictured); fabric specialists Laurent Garigue, and bridalwear experts Michael’s Bridalwear and Platinum Bridal Fabrics; cotton prints will be found at Anbo and Makower among others.

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