The Shenzhen International Home Textiles & Fabric Exhibition—Shenzhen Home Furnishings & Soft Décor Fair (HOMETEX) is a highly esteemed exhibition in China, dedicated to home textiles, fabrics, and interior décor. The most recent edition spanned 130,000 square meters, with 1,000 exhibiting companies hailing from Taiwan, South Africa, Dubai, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia, and other regions, attracting a total of 120,000 visitors. The show covers the full spectrum of “whole
The Exhibition Value of the Shenzhen Home Textiles and Soft Furnishings Show
- The Shenzhen International Home Textiles, Fabric & Home Decor Exhibition (HOMETEX) is Asia’s largest and most influential flagship event in the home soft furnishings sector. Since its inception in 1997, it has been successfully held for dozens of editions and is widely recognized by the industry as a leading indicator of trends in China’s home soft furnishings market and a central hub of the global home textiles value chain. Over nearly three decades, the exhibition has grown from an initial scale of fewer than 50 exhibitors occupying 400 square meters to a major industry gathering spanning more than 100,000 square meters, bringing together nearly 1,000 global brands and attracting over 100,000 professional buyers. The Spring 2026 edition coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Guangdong Home Textiles and Home Furnishings Industry Association, under the theme “Thirty Years of Refinement, Ushering in the Future of Home,” marking a new stage of development.
- The core value of exhibiting lies in its platform‑wide coverage of the entire industry chain and its robust channel advantages for precisely connecting with global buyers. The Spring 2026 show will feature an exhibition area of 100,000 square meters, organized into eight thematic pavilions, bringing together nearly 1,000 high‑quality enterprises across the full supply chain. Exhibits span all categories—home textiles and fabrics, smart shading solutions, wall décor, custom furniture, smart home technologies, and decorative accessories—fully showcasing innovative achievements within the broader home soft furnishings ecosystem. Concurrently, the event will host Home China (Shenzhen) Creative Design Week, presenting more than 40 high‑profile industry events and drawing over 200 global design luminaries and industry leaders, including former chief designers of Tom Ford, WGSN trend experts, and consultants from the Danish textile giant Kvadrat. During the exhibition, targeted invitations will be extended to 1,506 overseas professional buyers from five continents, covering regions such as Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Russia, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. Delegations from Kazakhstan and Vietnam, along with a special visit from the Malaysian Designers Association, underscore the exhibition’s unprecedented level of international participation.
- The exhibition aligns with three major industry trends—“comprehensive soft furnishing solutions, intelligent integration, and global expansion”—and establishes a cutting‑edge technological platform fostering deep collaboration among industry, academia, research, and end‑users. For the 2026 edition, the exhibition proudly announces that its highly anticipated Autumn Show, absent for two years, will return from August 7 to 9, centered on the strategic vision of “comprehensive soft furnishing solutions.” Seven innovative initiatives and four key value commitments will be unveiled, fundamentally breaking away from the conventional model of merely replicating the Spring Show and driving companies toward transformation—from product suppliers to lifestyle service providers. The exhibition introduces a groundbreaking “Business Matching Zone” and three category‑specific procurement fairs, leveraging big data to enable precise pre‑event matching between exhibitors and buyers, offering personalized one‑on‑one negotiation services. In partnership with WGSN, it launches the immersive “Convergence of All Trends” laboratory, translating annual color, fabric, and spatial trends into tangible, experiential scenarios. The “2026 Soft Furnishings AI Conference” will focus on the convergence of artificial intelligence and the home industry, exploring new pathways for digital and intelligent transformation, while the “Wonderful Market” creative bazaar and outdoor courtyard living showcase spaces bridge the gap between design innovation and consumer experience, opening up fresh avenues for home‑related consumption.
- In line with the industry strategy of “grouping together to go global,” the exhibition paves the way for a new phase of worldwide expansion. At the opening ceremony, the “Pan‑Home Industry Globalization Collaborative Ecosystem” was officially launched. The association joined forces with Informa Markets, the China Private Economy International Cooperation Chamber of Commerce, the North Rhine‑Westphalia State Office for International Business, the Kazakhstan Textile Business Association, and more than ten other domestic and international organizations to jointly establish a systematic overseas support framework, guiding enterprises from individual “going out” efforts toward coordinated, collaborative global expansion. As the ecosystem’s first pilot project, the 2026 Vietnam Home Textiles and Home Furnishings Exhibition is scheduled for November in Ho Chi Minh City, marking a pivotal step in Guangdong’s strategic deployment into emerging overseas markets. Starting in 2026, the exhibition will formally initiate an overseas exhibition program, empowering Chinese companies to engage more proactively with global markets.
- For Chinese enterprises, this exhibition serves as a strategic gateway to expand into global markets, connect with international resources, and showcase their innovative capabilities. From its humble beginnings in 1996 with fewer than 50 exhibitors, the show has evolved into today’s premier national event, gathering nearly 1,000 global brands and attracting over 100,000 professional buyers. Over the four‑day duration, the exhibition welcomed 98,279 professional visitors, with attendance on the third day increasing by 31% year over year—data that not only defies economic cycles but also demonstrates the industry’s remarkable resilience. Exhibiting companies can leverage this platform to access global procurement networks and seize early opportunities in the comprehensive, intelligent, and globally oriented transformation of the home soft furnishings sector.