With the Eastern Europe emerging as a source of fashion fabrics as well as finished garments, for the first time a delegation of companies from Romania is going to participate in the Texworld fabric fair.

They will be among 600 exhibitors at the show, scheduled to take place in the CNIT exhibition centre at La Defense in Paris from l6-l9 September.

Also making their debut are exhibitors from Israel.

Meanwhile, Turkish textile producers will mount the largest display of Turkish-made fashion fabrics to be displayed outside Turkey.