Explore the world of textiles and sustainability at Ulster Folk Museum – shop vintage, learn how to repair clothes, watch weaving and spinning demonstrations, try embroidery and learn from fashion and textile experts.

Shop vintage, learn repair skills, and discover the future of sustainable textiles at Textile Takeover on Saturday 10th October.

Discover how textiles were created, repaired and reused in the past, and how these skills can help us rethink today’s fashion systems. From spinning, weaving and knitting to embroidery, rag‑rugging and dressmaking, you’ll see crafts in action and meet the makers keeping them alive.

Shop vintage with Past Tense and Sally Vintage Pop Up, learn practical repair and embroidery skills, and hear from leading voices in textile sustainability including Fibreshed Ireland, Galway Woolstore, and our own Curator of Textiles, Valerie Wilson.

Around the Folk Museum, you’ll also find showcases from the Northern Ireland Embroidery and Patchwork Guilds, the Ulster Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers, and Belfast School of Art. 

Textile Repair with Repair Café NI

Bring your beloved textiles back to life! Join our expert fixers who will help you repair and care for the things you love, keeping them out of landfill. Bring along clothes, soft toys (including those much-loved teddy bears), bags, accessories and other textile items that need a little TLC. You’ll get help with your repair, and pick up tips and skills to help you look after your favourite things for longer.

Get your ticket here.