Wool & Fine Fiber Symposium

at the Dance Palace
in Point Reyes Station, CA
November 16, 2019
9am-5pm

Tamara plans to demonstrate string making, host a Plant Fiber Display Table, Paleotechnics Bookstore & Soapstone Beadmaking activity.

Fibershed hosts an annual Wool & Fine Fiber Symposium for a sold-out crowd each year in mid-November. The event functions to cross-pollinate urban and rural communities by bringing together designers, farmers, ecologists, scientists, and the general public to hear about topics that range from place-based breeding practices to designer & farmer clothing collaborations.

The tickets for the Wool & Fine Fiber Symposium are sold out but the event also includes a marketplace and free demonstrations to the public on sheep shearing, spinning, weaving, and natural dyeing.

Symposium Marketplace:
Free & Open to the Public All Day!

Join us in lofting a regional fiber economy: meet farmers, ranchers and designers from within our 150-mile region who will be offering place-based goods and raw materials for textile creation in the Symposium Marketplace. Shop yarn, roving, clothes, soaps, bedding, sheepskins, home goods, and more, all made with 100% locally grown fiber and natural dyes.

The Symposium Marketplace is spread across the Dance Palace’s Main Hall and Church Hall: the Church Hall is free to access and open all day, and the Main Hall hosts the presentations and will be open to the public during the mid-day break from 12:30-2:30 pm.

Demonstrations:
Free & Open to the Public from 12:30-2:30

Experience elements of the soil-to-skin process including sheep shearing, wool grading, heritage sheep, angora rabbits, felting, flax production, natural dyeing, spinning, weaving, mending, and primitive skills. The demonstrations take place outside on the Dance Palace front and back lawn, weather permitting.