Here is another photo by Debra Haden of the booths set up at the 2006 Taos Wool Festival. Thanks Deb!
Archive for Wool Festivals
2006 Toas Wool Festival Booths
Hand Sheering Sheep
Here is a photo I received from Debra Haden of a hand-sheering demonstration by Sharon White, at the 2006 Taos Wool Festival. I am certainly not this good at it. I cheat! I put my sheep in my goat stand and stand them up while sheering them. My back just won’t take bending for that long of a period of time. I do use the old fashioned type hand sheers. I may have statd this before, but I purchased… at a very expensive price tag.. an electric sheer. It is noisy, heavy, and it cut my poor sheep’s skin terribly! Never again. I love my babies too much to put them thru that. Any one want to buy it?
Taos Wool Festival Pix
I asked readers to share photos of the Taos Wool Festival. I received several from the 2006 festival. Let me know if you have any from this year. I will gladly post them for everyone to see. Thanks to Debra Haden for these.
Toas Wool Festival
Ok Guys, sorry, but I did not get to the Toas Wool Festival. I did my regular Farmer’s Market at Santa Fe and had hoped to go up on Sunday, but didn’t do. The thought of dragging the kids out for an all day trip the day after market was just too much. I had joined MAVWA and had applied for a booth, but was still left at third in line on a waiting list. I will try again next year as a joint venture with my friends Deb Hayden and my new partner Carol Marler. Maybe the three of us will have better luck. Three is a magical number after all. I would welcome any comments from readers about what you all saw there and how things are going in the fiber world. I heard a rumor that handspun yarns are just not selling well there at Toas. Please tell me it isn’t so!!!
