Apply to Exhibit at Threads Textile Festival Market 2025

Sunny Bank Mills' annual Threads Textile Festival is back for its third year - celebrating textiles through a series of talks, workshops and more!

Apply now to be a stallholder in the Festival's Textile Market on 17th & 18th May 2025. Sunny Bank are looking for textile makers, designers, suppliers and artists to take part.

Threads will take place across the site of Sunny Bank Mills on the 17th & 18th May 2025. Alongside the market in the 1912 Mill with 50+ textile stalls, we will be running an extensive programme of workshops and talks.

For the market, Sunny Bank are interested in hearing from textile-themed producers and sellers to include homewares, knitting and crochet, yarn, felting, fabrics, haberdashery, quilting, embroidery and apparel.

As champions of emerging artists, a number of tables will be allocated to local students and emerging textile artists/makers as part of this event.

These tables will be offered free of charge to a small number of applicants selected by the Arts team. If you are interested in applying for an emerging artist stall, please make this clear within your application.

What Sunny Banks are looking for:

YES

• Makers & designers selling handmade clothing, textile homewares and gifts
• Emerging textile artists, designers & makers hoping to take part in a professional market for the first time
• Textile artists selling handcrafted original art
• Small businesses selling fabric, haberdashery supplies, patterns and dressmaking materials
• Small businesses/makers selling textile kits 
• Small businesses/makers selling yarn and other crochet & knitting supplies
• Makers selling hand embroidered, felted or appliqued clothing, homewares & gifts
• Small businesses/makers selling quilting supplies

NO

• Businesses/makers selling only digitally printed finished textile goods (e.g. digital/sublimation printed tea towels)
• Traders selling finished products on behalf of other people, unless as part of a social enterprise/charity

Standard stall (6ft x 2.5ft trestle table) -  £80 per day

Large stall (Approx 10ft total area width including a 6ft x 2.5ft trestle table & optional access to a cutting table) - £115 per day

General Information:

Sunny Bank Mills is an historic former worsted textile mill, set in the heart of the community of Farsley, Leeds. Since 2010, it has been developed as a business and artistic community, with a Gallery selling fine art by local and international artists, a textile and local history archive, shops, cafes, artist studios and more. 

Threads will be promoted via the local press, leaflet drops, and advertising in specialised textile publications. We have an established social media presence (over 30k total followers) and will promote the event on our website.

The Market will be open to the public 10 am - 4 pm daily.