科隆国际创意手工艺品及业余爱好制品展览会（h+h cologne - The international trade fair for creative handicraft and hobby）是一届国际性业余爱好者手工艺品创新展览会，每年一届在科隆国际展览中心举行。该展是编织，钩针编织，缝纫，刺绣工艺品的世界。该展注重促销与贸易、手工艺创作产品展示，研讨会和特别表演艺术家和相关机构参与激发你的创新与参加。参展收效明显，同时获得很多创作灵感，每年3-4月举行的h+h展是手工艺术品行业的一次盛会。
h+h cologne参展商目标群体：家纺纺织品，挂毯，缝纫；纱线，缝纫和工艺储存容器；缝纫篮，针织和针织纱线；针织机纱，小百货；工艺品。参观者目标群体：零售，销售百货，邮购，商业，协会，学校等。
h+h cologne越来越多地采取了国际上率先作为纺织品设计的论坛。每年三月，手工艺品业界聚集在科隆，汇聚最新的趋势和收藏品交易行业的信息。观众可对工作坊、时尚展和特别展览的享受。展会规模近400家展商，近1万5千观众。
展品范围(Show Products):
业余爱好工具：配件（除服装首饰），教学书籍，贴花作品/花边/辫子和标签，铁的模式，座架，相框，电脑/软件，装饰用品，顶针，针线活实现，缝纫配件，针针织和钩针钩，针线包，刺绣面料，家纺产品，绣花，按钮，打结羊毛/打结工具包，男子服饰用品，店铺装修与设计，结网纱线/配件，缝纫纱线，缝纫工艺储存容器，缝纫机配件，亮片，珠宝，装饰品，拼布绗缝，拉链，剪刀，种模式，绣丝带，绣花纱，刺绣包，台绣花机，装饰帆布，针织及钩编纱线，针织纱机，针织机配件，日光灯，壁毯挂毯，地毯纱，地毯打结框架/实现，纺织品设计，包装袋，编织纱，帧/织机配件，贸易杂志/书；
工艺品：教学书籍，工艺包，条色带，蜡染/配件，基本用品制作，丙烯酸/织物/油和水彩画，毛毡/毡，固定剂/胶水及喷头，邮票，塑造/绘画/品牌，手工蜡烛，花香和篮，艺术材料/海报/框架，皮革制作工艺用品，个模型化合物，模具/转让和贴花，纸艺/造纸及剪贴簿，刷，陶瓷，袖珍娃娃，手工珠宝，丝绸画，织物印刷/配件，织物；
其它：针、缝补工具。
展会报告(Show Reports):
11.500 trade visitors: h+h cologne 2025 boosts the retail trade and demonstrates its innovative power Around 300 exhibitors from 39 countries
Trade visitors from 79 countries
Top theme "Local Retail: Creating the Future" shows how the local retail trade can remain fit for the future
h+h cologne 2025 proved once again from 7 to 9 March why it is the central trade fair highlight of the textile handicraft industry. After three successful trade fair days around 300 exhibitors from 39 countries are looking back on an impressive event full of innovations, exchange and inspiration, but also successful business deals. Sustainability was a central theme this year: Fabrics made from algae or mushrooms and modern production techniques that were exhibited in the Green Zone underlined the industry's creative power. The extensive event and workshop programme with the main topics "Trends & Innovation", "Marketing & Technology" and "Business Development & Sustainability", was greeted with enthusiasm by the participants. Under the top theme "Local Retail: Creating the Future", the trade fair was devoted to the future of the local retail trade. It offered the trade visitors valuable ideas and strategies for the sustainable reinforcement of their businesses, because they are battling with a difficult market environment. The exhibitors look back on the event very positively in spite of the hurdles the retail trade is faced with and described it as a pioneering prelude to the industry upturn.
"With its focus on the local retail trade, h+h cologne is sending out a clear signal regarding how the industry has to actively and sustainably position itself in order to remain future-proof. It demonstrated once again in 2025 that it is not only a place for market innovations, but also an established knowledge, networking and business platform for the entire textile handicraft industry," commented Oliver Frese, Chief Operating Officer, Koelnmesse.
"Even if handicrafts have established themselves as a fixed hobby, especially among young people, local retailers in particular are facing macroeconomic challenges such as consumer restraint, as evidenced by our recently published market figures. The very good result of 11.500 trade visitors this year underlines all the more how important it is that this year's h+h cologne has set impulses for the long-term success of the industry," stated Hedi Ehlen, CEO of Initiative Handarbeit.
h+h cologne 2025 at a glance:
11.500 trade visitors from 79 countries with a foreign share of 41%
Biggest growth from the USA and Poland
The biggest international groups of visitors came from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium.
Around 300 exhibitors from 39 countries with a foreign share of 78%
2 new zones focusing on sustainable concepts & innovations
The Initiative Handarbeit has published the current market figures of the handicraft industry on its website: Market figures 2024
Koelnmesse - trade fairs for the handicraft industry
As an organiser of innovative and important trade fairs worldwide Koelnmesse is the global market leader in the handicraft & hobby sector. h+h cologne is the leading trade fair for textile handicrafts and the industry's largest international inspiration and order platform. Koelnmesse also supports companies in reaching international markets, which is why it has expanded its fibre arts portfolio in the USA: h+h americas, a platform for the North American knitting, sewing, textile and craft industries, uses pioneering formats and online solutions to put the industry's products and services centre stage. The hybrid trade show in Rosemont, Illinois, offers both digital and on-site experiences to maximise reach and impact. The Fiber+Fabric Craft Festival in Rosemont, Illinois, is a new consumer trade show that brings together crafters, creatives, and innovators for education and to showcase the latest trends, products, and techniques in knitting, crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, felting, sewing, quilting, and cosplay.
Next events:
h+h americas – May 7 - 9, 2025 – Chicago, USA
h+h cologne – March 20 - 22, 2026 – Cologne, Germany
Fiber+Fabric Craft Festival – May 1 - 3, 2026 – Chicago, USA
