Canary Islands Wool Festival

The Canary Islands Wool Festival is an annual event held in La Orotava, Tenerife, aimed at promoting wool as a sustainable resource and encouraging its use in various fields. The festival features a diverse program, including a wool market, conferences, live shearing demonstrations, craft workshops, and contemporary textile art exhibitions. These activities seek to bridge tradition and innovation, highlighting wool's role in sustainability, the circular economy, and design. Additionally, the festival awards the "Alcira Padrón" Research Prize, recognizing innovative studies on wool as a sustainable resource.