PTXM 2026: Layers of Resilience

What sustains us through uncertainty and change? How do textiles and community carry memory, ingenuity, and our collective resilience through time? In this moment marked by societal strain, fraying, and a deep need for mending, we welcome you to join a collective dialogue about how textiles can embody adaptation, care, and connection.

This year’s festival invites us to consider how textiles carry and exchange knowledge while creating space for renewal. From material innovation to inherited knowledge, from personal expression to collective care, textile practices offer many expressions of resilience, resistance, creativity, and interdependence. What does it mean to build resilience together? What stories, acts of making, and relationships help sustain us?

This October, we welcome artists, makers, educators, businesses, designers, and communities to bring this theme to life through exhibitions, workshops, talks, and gatherings across Portland and extended regions. Join us as we showcase a wealth of diverse cultural and generational perspectives through our collective knowledge, experiences, and textile practices. Powered by inclusive, grassroots organizing within Portland’s vibrant textile community and beyond, we look forward to your participation in PTXM 2026!

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With gratitude and admiration,

Textile eXchange

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In just over 4 years, Portland TextileX Month (PTXM) has turned from an ambitious idea into an engaged community movement. This transformation highlights the power of our mission to foster collaboration, cross-pollination, cultural dialogue, and intergenerational exchange among the Portland textile community and beyond.

This year we’ve organized the PTXM festival with over 40 events and directly sponsored a multitude of FREE programs including exhibits, workshops, artist talks, community events, and more—representing a diverse range of textile interests and practices. This year’s PTXM Regeneration Festival has brought together makers, businesses, teachers, students, institutions, and organizations to gather around shared interests and knowledge-sharing. PTXM would not have been possible without the dedication of event organizers, paid contributors, paid interns, amazing volunteers and the receptiveness of the textile community.

We hope to continue building PTXM and TextileX website as sustainable resources that serve the textile community for years to come, and that’s where you come in.

If you feel a connection to the PTXM mission and what we can accomplish together, please consider making a direct contribution programming. As a direct contributor, your funds will go directly toward programming, lean administrative expenses, and providing paid internships. We appreciate any contribution you can make and your continued support.

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