About Heimtextil
Each January, Heimtextil brings the international home and contract textile industry to Messe Frankfurt. Organised by Messe Frankfurt, it describes itself as the global platform for home and contract textiles and textile design, and it serves as an ordering platform for the trade.
Product areas cover home and contract textiles, textile design, carpets and rugs, fibres and yarns, bedding and sleep products, interior design products and global sourcing. Dedicated areas such as Interior.Architecture.Hospitality, Carpets and Rugs, Global Home, a New Talent Area and Texpertise Econogy, which focuses on sustainability, help visitors find relevant suppliers across a large site.
Visitors are trade professionals: retailers, wholesalers, interior designers, architects, hospitality specialists and manufacturers sourcing materials, with a strongly international mix. The fair is a business-to-business event aimed at decision makers.
Trends are a large part of Heimtextil's identity. Each edition presents a trend direction developed with design partners, and talks, tours and special presentations run throughout the halls. For textile suppliers, the fair offers access to buyers from around the world in a single week, at the start of the year when many are setting their ranges. Larger exhibitors often use their stands to present full collections in room settings, which suits buyers who want to see textiles in context.
Next edition
Heimtextil 2027: what to expect
Heimtextil 2027 runs from 12 to 15 January at Messe Frankfurt. The trend direction for this edition, Home Maxxing, The Performance of Everyday Living, is being developed with Alcova Milano, and designer Patricia Urquiola is creating a textile design installation. New areas include Comfort and Connect, with bedding companies such as Hermann Biederlack, IBENA and Zoeppritz, and Sleep and Meet, dedicated to mattresses and wellbeing.
Messe Frankfurt reported more than 48,000 visitors at the 2026 edition.
Stand space is priced per square metre with mandatory extras, including a media package, so budgets should account for these on top of the build. Room-set displays that show fabrics in use tend to suit this audience well.