Editor’s Note
This article introduces the 2025 Christmas fabric for Mulhouse, France. Titled “Perles du Rhin” (Pearls of the Rhine), the design will decorate the city center and its Christmas market starting November 21st.
Mulhouse has unveiled its 2025 Christmas Fabric, named “Perles du Rhin” (Pearls of the Rhine). This unique fabric, both poetic and timeless, will adorn the city center starting November 21st and will accompany the entire Christmas market.
Since 1990, the Christmas Fabric has been an exclusive creation that beats at the heart of Mulhouse’s festive season. Each year, a new fabric is imagined by a designer, drawing inspiration from the collections of the Musée de l’Impression sur Étoffes (Textile Printing Museum).
For this edition, it is once again the Mulhouse-based designer Marie-Jo Gebel who has taken on the challenge. A seamstress and textile enthusiast, she imagined this Christmas fabric titled Perles du Rhin.
The 2025 Mulhouse Christmas fabric is elegant and luminous, combining tradition, craftsmanship, and a distinctly Alsatian poetry.
From the opening of the Mulhouse Christmas Market, the 2025 Christmas Fabric will adorn the chalets, the decorations on Place de la Réunion, and several emblematic sites in the historic center. It will also be used in the windows of many partner shops. Visitors will thus be immersed in an atmosphere where every detail counts.
As every year, the fabric will be available for purchase at the Boutique aux Étoffes at the Christmas market, in the form of tablecloths, napkins, table runners, and accessories. More than 13 km of this textile were woven in the Vosges and then printed in Munster, guaranteeing 100% local production certified with the Alsace Terre Textile label.
The Christmas Fabric has become a full-fledged symbol of Mulhouse’s festive season. It embodies the soul of the city during winter and contributes to the market’s unique atmosphere, highly appreciated by French and international visitors. More than just a decoration, it tells the story of Mulhouse’s textile history and creates a connecting thread from one year to the next.
Entertainment, concerts, a magical ambiance… the market attracts thousands of visitors each year.
