Vellakovil (also spelled Vellakoil) is a municipal town in the former Erode district and now in Tirupur District, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It mid way between two major cities Tiruchirapalli and Coimbatore. It is located equidistant to business cities Erode and Tirupur.

The town is spreaded in an area of 64.75 sq.km. It is about 350 Km away from Chennai. The Vellakovil town is a major commercial centre for Agriculture, especially Textiles that is why it is called as Textiles city. In India, Vellakovil is main city for Textile trade. The Main industry in the Municipality area is the power loom factories and spinning mills. Approximately nearly 10,000 power looms and 150 spinning mills are running. All power loom factories are manufacturing bed sheets and the mills are producing weaving yarn. Hence mainly the populations of this municipality are the laborers depending in the power loom and mills all production in the above industry are transporting mainly to Karur and Erode market.