LvTex Community 05.05.2026
You don’t need a company. You don’t need a business plan. If textiles, fashion or design is your thing, this is your place.
LvTex Community is the open associated structure of the Latvian Textile Industry Association. It is for the girl in Daugavpils who makes bags from deadstock fabric in her kitchen. The two guys in Tornakalns launching a streetwear label out of a garage. The cosplayer who builds her own armour from scratch. The RTU student designing biodegradable yarns. The pattern maker who quit her job to figure out what comes next. The aspiring model who just landed in Riga looking for a way into fashion.
You show up, you’re in
Free registration. Online form. No review process. No interviews. No waiting list.
You decide what you do and how much time you give. Show up at one event and disappear for six months. Or spend every Friday in a workshop. Both are fine. Your rules.
What you actually get
Factory owners, brand founders, pattern makers, technical designers, people who sew every day. Association events, workshops, project briefings that normally cost money or need a registered company name. People you can text, rooms you can sit in. You walk in, you ask, you learn.
Through your Committee you launch initiatives, apply for grants, run events with the Association behind you. Bring an idea, your Head submits it, the Board answers in 30 days. Things actually get built.
Association Committees can invite Community participants as observers or experts. No vote, but a voice in the room where decisions are shaped.
When you register a legal entity and start business activity, you apply for full membership of the Association. If you are already a sole trader (saimnieciskā darbība) or individual merchant, you go straight to full membership.
Your participation in a Committee and the tasks you complete for the Association count as volunteer work. For younger members this is real, documentable work experience: useful for CV, university applications and first job interviews. We can issue written confirmation when you need it.
Start your own movement
Sustainable fashion collective. Upcycling lab. Cosplay crew. Streetwear collective. Textile-tech hackers. Heritage embroidery group. Whatever you want to build inside textiles. Community Committees are how you make it real inside LvTex.
How it works: three of you, with a topic, with a Head candidate, with a brief idea. You send it to the Secretariat. The Board reads it and answers within 30 days. That’s the whole gate.
Once approved, your Committee runs itself. You elect a Head. The Head is the chair of the Committee and the contact point with the Association. Term is one year. Re-election open.
If your Committee grows past 10 people, the Head can appoint a Deputy. Bigger? More Deputies, up to four. Don’t worry about the math. Run the thing, the structure follows.
Many Committees can exist at the same time. Many Heads, side by side, each running their own movement. Streetwear and cosplay and sustainability and heritage embroidery don’t compete for one chair. Every group has its own.
How your idea reaches the Board
Got a proposal? Your Committee Head submits it to the Secretariat. The Secretariat formalises it and forwards it to the Board. The Board reviews and answers in writing, with reasoning, within 30 calendar days.
Real route. Real answer. Every time.
One rule that matters
Community participants and Committees do not speak to media, post on social media, present at conferences or make any public statement on behalf of the Association without the Board’s written approval. The Head of each Committee is personally responsible for keeping this rule inside their own Committee.
Inside the Community and from your own personal name, you say what you want. Outside, the Association speaks through its official channels.
What this is not
Not a course. Not a mentorship program with assigned pairs. Not a waiting room for full membership. You are not here to become something later. You are here because right now you want to be part of the Latvian textile and creative scene.
Get in
Send us a message. We share registration details and tell you about the next open event.
Registration is open from 18 years. Under 18 with written parental consent.