Welcome return of popular Threads Textile Festival to Sunny Bank Mills

Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley is once again opening the doors of its iconic 1912 Mill for the third annual Threads Textile Festival over the weekend of May 17-18.

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Threads Textile Festival will feature a market with over 50 independent businesses and textile makers on each of the two days, selling everything from quality fabric and haberdashery supplies, wool and yarn, textile kits, clothing, homewares and more. Meet and talk to makers, artists and suppliers from all over the UK and buy direct from them.

There is also an additional free exhibition area at the top of the 1912 Mill, with exhibitors including Alwoodley Quilters, the Northern Society of Costume and Textiles, Bradford College, Malcolm the Weaver and Saba Siddiqui’s interactive installation Defiance My Way which won the People’s Choice Award for the 2024 FUAM Graduate Art Prize.

Alongside all of this are free family-friendly drop-in workshops, no booking required.

As well as the market and free exhibition area, a series of textile related pre-bookable talks and workshops are taking place across the Mills.

The Threads Festival talks programme has an international flavour and roams the world from the Caribbean, to France, the Netherlands and the UK.