Fiber arts and textile traditions from around the world will be showcased throughout October’s Portland TextileX Month . The citywide festival will have exhibits, workshops, artists talks, studio sales and dozens of other events, including community quilt making ; many are free to attend.

The theme for 2025 Portland TextileX Month is legacies, and experts will relay the stories, traditions and knowledge passed forward through fabric and fibers used to create functional, fashionable and purely sculptural pieces.

Festival co-founder and director Caleb Sayan of Textile Hive in Portland represents a continuation of his family legacy.

His mother, the late Andrea Aranow , a fashion designer and textile scholar who famously dressed guitarist Jimi Hendrix in snakeskin bell bottoms

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