Baltic Fashion & Textile Riga 2014 ended on April 6. This international textile industry fair is a major fashion and textile industry event in the Baltic region. There were 120 participants from 11 countries including Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Ukraine and India. They presented the latest casual wear and work clothes, lingerie and knitwear collections, a vast variety of fabrics, sewing accessories and state-of-the-art production equipment. The three day exhibition was attended by 9,721 visitors from 26 countries.
Latvian manufacturers offered original textile products of high quality fabrics like cotton, linen, silk and woolen clothes for different occasions, fine lacy lingerie, exquisitely patterned home textiles and a diversified range of auxiliary materials.
Latvian scientists and manufacturers presented the latest innovations. Visitors could learn about electronic elements integrated into textiles and clothing, amber thread production technology and the use of amber composite threads in a variety of textile products, hemp processing and hemp fibers in various home textile products – towels, blankets, curtains, tablecloths and napkins. Touch sensitive clothing with integrated light-emitting diodes attracted the greatest interest.
The event offered B2B matchmaking to enable textile, fashion and design professionals to develop interdisciplinary cooperation and develop new projects. The next Baltic Fashion & Textile Riga 2015 will take place April 16 to 18, 2015.
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