Wonderwool Wales 2025 set to be record-breaking event
Wonderwool Wales 2025 is set to be a record-breaking event in Builth Wells.
The premier wool and natural fibre festival in Wales will be held at the Royal Welsh Showground on April 26 and 27.
With 220 exhibitors and more than 6,000 visitors expected, advance ticket sales have already surpassed previous years.
A highlight of the festival will be a special installation to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
This project is being crafted by a group of enthusiastic knitters from France and around the world.
The installation, which will be displayed in Hall 3, has grown significantly in size.
Chrissie Menzies, Wonderwool Wales director, said: "It has grown from eight to 10 metres and could well be even larger by the time of the show.
"People from around the world are knitting panels for the installation which is quite amazing."
The VE Day project is the brainchild of Tansy Forster and her fellow knitters, who were also behind The Longest Yarn installation for D-Day.
More than 1,000 knitters from across the globe contributed to that project.
Wonderwool Wales will have an international flavour, with Kimberly Perkins from Cat Mountain Fibre Arts, Colorado, showcasing her hand-dyed, multi-textured yarn bundles and knitting and crochet patterns.
She is the first exhibitor to fly in from America.
Ms Menzies shared that there will be more than 15 new exhibitors at the event, including Paint-Box Threads from near Leominster and Cold Harbour Mill from Devon.
Zoe Acketts, of Paint-Box Threads, specialises in hand-dyed threads and fabric for the textile crafting market.
Ms Menzies said: "I'm sure we will all be coming away with some of Zoe's threads.
"Her curated boxes of colours are just too good to use, you just want to display them in your studio and look at them."
Cold Harbour Mill will be joining other working mill exhibitors who use heritage machinery to produce yarn collections and woven textiles.
The British Coloured Sheep Breeders' Association will be bringing sheep for the first time.
Limited places are available for some of the Woolschool Workshops.
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