Textiles Take the Stage at Hay on Wye Festival

Among the fields of cow parsley and second-hand books, in a town where every corner turns a page, Hay Festival 2025 is threading textiles through its tapestry of talks, debates and ideas. Known as 'the Woodstock of the mind,' this internationally acclaimed gathering of thinkers and storytellers now sets its sights on fabric - not as fashion’s footnote, but as a central narrative.

The Hay on Wye Festival at night. Photo Credit: credit Sam Hardwick and Hay Festival.

This year’s programme invites us to listen to the rustle of cloth and the stories it holds, with Kate Fletcher and Zandra Rhodes bringing textiles to the fore. Their conversations weave together environmental thinking, radical design and lived experience in ways that challenge and enchant.

Kate Fletcher. Photo Credit: Jack Grange.

Fletcher, a leader in sustainable fashion and systems change, appears with Fletcher’s Almanac (Sunday 25 May, 5.30pm, Creative Hub), a conversation that promises not just insight, but recalibration...

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Lead Image: Zandra Rhodes with a backdrop of her printed creations. Source: Textile Eye.