Events and Attractions

This year marked the fourth Tangled Galashiels, the fibre and textile festival that has become a key part of the town's events calendar. Celebrating everything from knitting, crochet and weaving to spinning, dyeing, felting and embroidery, the festival attracts makers, artists, craftspeople and visitors from across Scotland, the UK and beyond. Over the course of the weekend, Galashiels welcomed visitors who had travelled from far and wide to take part in workshops, demonstrat

Tangled Galashiels, the town’s growing fibre festival, returns on 29th and 30th May and is expected to bring thousands of visitors into Galashiels once again. Now in its fourth year, the event has become an important date in the calendar for many local businesses, with shops, cafés and hospitality venues often seeing a significant increase in footfall across the festival weekend. Following feedback from BID levy payers in previous years, we recognised that visitor movement th