Forssa Textile Week
21.-24.8.
2025
#forssatextileweek
Forssa Textile Week is a textile festival that highlights high-quality design, sustainable production and textile art. Our goal is to promote the position of design and sustainable textiles and create a topical arena for textiles.
The event will take place in the cultural premises in the center of Forssa between 21 to 24 August 2025
. The program includes exhibitions, pop-up sales and discussions on current issues in textiles.
The craft tradition and textile industries still live strong in the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. There is also good collaboration between Finland and the Baltic countries. In 2025 we'd like to invite international guests from the Baltic!
Are you a textile artist, designer or textile entrepreneur in the Baltic? Would you like to strengthen your networks and feel the Forssa Textile Week spirit? Join us here:
The craft tradition and textile industries still live strong in the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. There is also good collaboration between Finland and the Baltic countries. In 2025 we'd like to invite international guests from the Baltic!
Are you a textile artist, designer or textile entrepreneur in the Baltic? Would you like to strengthen your networks and feel the Forssa Textile Week spirit? Join us here:
Forssa was established around the textile industry. Swedish-born Axel Wahren (1814-1885) begun constructing the Forssa cotton spinning mill in 1847. The mill was soon followed by a weaving mill, yarn dyeing plant, and Finland's first industrial fabric printing shop in 1861. Through the age of industrial textile printing, Forssa maintained its status as the Finnish capital of printmaking know-how and design and continued onwards from the 1930s as an important part of Finlayson Co. Established in 1951, Forssa atelier hosted textile designers who created patterns of different colors and designs: stripes, polka dots, florals, abstracts, and everything in between, always getting inspired by the movements of art, popular culture, architecture, and design of their time. These printed fabrics dressed our nation, decorated our homes and spread across the border to international markets.
Industrial-scale textile production in Forssa ended in 2009. The heritage of the textile factories is now stored in the Forssa Museum. The vast textile archive contains fabric samples, sketches, artifacts, and other material originating from between the 1800's and 2000's. Forssa Museum and the Pattern Centre tell the story of the textile community, factory, designers, and production of industrial textiles.
The ideology of the Forssa Textile Week is based on the history of Finnish textiles and the desire to create a sustainable future for textiles.
The organizers of the event are the Forssa Museum & The City of Forssa.
Partners of the event are Finnish Textile and Fashion, Aalto University, Textile Artists Association TEXO, Patternsfrom Agency, HAMK - Häme University of Applied Sciences, Textilmuseet (Sweden), Nordic Textile Art (Sweden) and Maria Jernkvist Textile (Sweden).
More information:
Kati Kivimäki tel +358-3-4141 5837
