(outdoor demonstrations weather-permitting)
The Fiber Arts weaving booth is set up and waiting your arrival! (Check out all the photos below.) We finished weaving 182 scarves for the Fair and used 77.43 miles of Chenille! We started weaving these beautiful, warm scarves right after Labor Day this year. Come by and get one for yourself or as a … Read more
For the past six weeks teachers and students have been helping to weave rigid heddle scarves for our fair. We put enough chenille on each loom to weave 6 – 8 scarves at a time. When finished we take the whole roll of scarves off the loom, wash and then dry them. Yohannah with the … Read more
To advance my loom I put the beater bar at rest. Then I take off the hook and roll the bottom bar forward. Finally I roll the top bar. Now I can continue to weave on my scarf for the fair. -Tikvah K. age 7 [envira-gallery id=”3912″]
We are starting to put the booth up! Jan starting to set up the Potholder loop display. We are expecting over 100 large and small potholders that both children and adults have made (probably a lot of grandmas!) [envira-gallery id=”3898″]
Noa is starting to mangle the 50 linen totes that the teachers and students wove during our two week long class, “Weaving Extravaganza” in August. This mangle is an antique mangle that Jed Owen just refinished for us and it works like a charm! The linen comes out the other side soft and supple and … Read more
Block by block we are hurrying to finish the thousands of tiny stitches across our quilts for the Fair! The younger ones are busy stretching the loops across their small looms as they make a bunch of hot pads. [envira-gallery id=”3753″]
Getting off the last of the damask hand towels for the fair! Every towel was woven by hand. These are the last 22 of 44 that we put on that little loom.
Filled with brightly colored yarns, and of course, a few subtle, warm colored skeins, the Fiber Arts building is worth taking the time to stop by and see! See the spinning wheels and Takli’s turn the raw cotton, flax and wool into skeins of prepared thread to be warped on the loom. Watch as yarn … Read more
If you’ve never heard the sound of a loom in use, now is the time to stop in and see the beautiful products that the weavers are producing for the Fair! From plant to spinning wheel, to loom to finished item, this shop is a busy beehive of activity, as well as a rainbow palette … Read more
