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Fiber Arts Demonstrations

Updated for 2024 You are invited to visit the Main Exhibition Annex any time between 9:00 a.m. and ...

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Free Fiber Arts Lecture: Mend. Make. Do. with the Chesapeake Fibershed

New for 2024 We hear about buying less, sourcing locally, and wearing natural and regenerative fibe ...

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Free Fiber Arts Lecture: Weaving and the Role of Women in the Viking Age with Diana Buck

New for 2024 This lecture will offer a fascinating look into the ways in which textile production ...

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Maryland Make It With Wool Fashion Show

Updated for 2024 The annual Make It With Wool (MIWW) competition is dedicated to encouraging sewing ...

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Njörðr’s Wanderers

Updated for 2024 After having such a lovely time meeting last year’s attendees, Njörðr's Wander ...

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Parade of Sheep Breeds

Updated for 2024 The American sheep industry offers a wide range of genetic diversity. To celebrate ...

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Sheep Breeds Display

Updated for 2024 A rare opportunity to view over thirty different breeds of sheep in one place. Bre ...

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Sheep Shearing Demonstrations

Updated for 2024 The Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is pleased to have Emily Chamelin of Westmi ...

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Sheepdog Demonstrations

Updated for 2024 The Sheepdog Demonstrations at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival are always a ...

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Shepherds Talk – How Chefs Helped our Lamb Business Succeed with John and Sukey Jamison

John and Sukey own Jamison Farm in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Their picturesque 210-acre farm produced s ...

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Spin-In

Updated for 2024 Bring your spinning wheel, spindle, or charka and join our fun and FREE gathering ...

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Storytelling For All Ages with Tim Livengood

Updated for 2024 Tim Livengood is a storyteller since way back, learning from vinyl LPs on a record ...

2024 Festival Gear Now Available

A selection of 2024 Festival Merchandise is now available. We have short-sleeved t-shirts, long-sleeved hooded t-shirts, three styles of bags, and two sizes of posters. Click "Read More" for details on how you can get yours!
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Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

2 days ago

Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Henry Clemes is co-founder of the “father and son” fiber arts team @Clemes & Clemes, Inc. based in Pinole, California, Henry has been building innovative and elegant fiber arts equipment and sharing his knowledge about fiber preparation for 50 years. We are pleased to have him back teaching three full-day drum carding classes this year. Although Carding for Color: Tints and Shades has sold out, there are still a few seats available for Exploring the Drum Carder and Carding for Color: Fractals. Registration is available at www.lessonface.com/sheepandwool ... See MoreSee Less

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Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

2 days ago

Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
There are still available seats in some classes! Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival is delighted to welcome Peggy Doney from Colorado Springs, Colorado to the roster of new instructors this spring! Life for Peggy was never the same after taking a spinning class with her neighbor years ago. Before she knew it, Peggy was spinning, knitting, dyeing, and creating silk fusion. Eventually, Peggy became a dyer for Treenway Silk, began exploring her own colorways, and developed her own color recipes through experimentation with gradient, triad, and monochromatic studies. She has a special interest in making accurate, reproducible dye recipes that reflect colors found in nature. Peggy loves to share her enthusiasm and knowledge of dying and has been teaching for several years at gatherings, guilds, and festivals including Taos Wool Festival. Two of her classes have already sold out, but there are still limited seats available in Tints, Tones, and Shades, Oh My! In this class, students will learn about the role of adding white, black, and gray to colors, as well as using different additives to achieve consistent depths of shade. But don’t let color theory intimidate you! Peggy will make sure you leave with lots of beautiful samples, and she is bringing lots of dye jokes and her big box of crayons as reference material! You can learn more about Peggy by following her The 100th Sheep and you can register for her class at www.lessonface.com/sheepandwool ... See MoreSee Less

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Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

3 days ago

Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Teacher Spotlight! There are still limited seats available in some classes! Meet Jill Duarte, one of our amazing instructors at Maryland Sheep and Wool this year. Many of you know her as the co-owner of Hipstrings and a frequent contributor to PLY Magazine, but you might not know Jill also holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Evolutionary Biology! Jill’s background in science and love of fiber arts has informed her business and is reflected in the fiber, yarn, and tools she creates and produces. Jill describes herself as “inordinately fond of short-stapled fibers and fast spinning tools.” Like many of us, she cannot just stop with one fiber pursuit, and she finds herself knitting, spinning, dying, crocheting, weaving, and sometimes felting. As an author and teacher, Jill is dedicated to the resurgence of modern fiber craft that is based on a foundation of technical and historical knowledge. This year Jill is sharing her expertise with several knitting and spinning classes including Fiber Speed Dating, Spinning Short Stapled Fibers , Getting Started on a Supported Spindle, Spinning for Consistency, and Knitting with Handspun Yarn. Although a few of her classes are sold out, a limited number of seats for the remaining classes are still available here: www.lessonface.com/sheepandwool#mdsw #mdsw24 ... See MoreSee Less

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