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2023 Featured Breed: Jacob
Posted: April 26, 2023
Learn more about the Jacob breed and talk to JSBA members in the Breed Display Barn (Barn 7-8 on the map) while you are at the Festival.2023 Festival Gear Now Available
Posted: April 2, 2023
A selection of 2023 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. There are two ways to get your gear early: In store at the Ceresville New Holland, Inc./Sheepman Supply Co. showroom in Frederick, Maryland, or online at https://www.sheepman.com/product-category/maryland-sheep-wool-festival-online/. Lots of additional items, styles, and colors will be available at the festival on May 6 & 7!2023 tickets and catalogs now on sale!
Posted: February 26, 2023
Tickets and catalogs for the 2023 festival are now on sale at https://mswf2023.eventbrite.com.Registration for 2023 Fiber Arts Seminars Opening Soon
Posted: February 9, 2023
Registration will open at 2:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 19.Warm up for the Festival with Winterfest 2023!
Posted: November 17, 2022
Two days of virtual spinning, knitting, and felting classes on January 28 and 29.Registration opens November 19.
2022 Catalog Cover Artist
Posted: March 4, 2022
Susan Due Pearcy has lived in the Agricultural Reserve in Barnesville, Maryland for 27 years and enjoys having sheep grazing next door and fibre artist friends nearby. She is continually inspired in her art and life by the natural beauty of her surroundings and works plein air in oil and pastel and creates her printmaking in Sugarloaf Studio behind her home...COVID-19 Protocols
Posted: February 19, 2022
Click "Read More" to see our most recent COVID-19 protocols.Registration for 2022 Fiber Arts Seminars is now open!
Posted: January 30, 2022
COVID-19 precautions will be in effect. Click "Read More" for further details.Warm up for the Festival with Winterfest!
Posted: October 28, 2021
Two days of virtual spinning, knitting, felting, and crochet classes on January 29 and 30, 2022.Registration is now open!
Proposals for 2022 Fiber Arts Seminars now being accepted
Posted: June 15, 2021
We are now accepting proposals for fiber arts seminars to be held in conjunction with the 49th Annual Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, which will take place in person on May 7 & 8, 2022 in West Friendship, Maryland. Many seminars will be held Wednesday-Friday of the week leading up to the festival; all seminars will be held in person. The Fiber Arts Seminar Committee invites instructors from every heritage, culture, belief system, and lifestyle to submit a proposal.
Submit your proposal(s) here.
The deadline to submit a proposal is July 15.…