2012 event details
On going events
Marion Kuit
I am a printmaker. Current work depicts different aspects of the sheep farming year. To date, seven of the twelve months are completed.Prints are relief lino prints produced in small editions of six.
January
USA Surfaces Exhibition
February
Premiere Vision Weavers Conference
March
16th & 17th Trefriw Woollen Mills Ltd
Trefriw Woollen Mills
10 am - 4 pm
TREFRIW WOOLLEN MILLS is proud to launch a new range of garments made up in our fabrics woven on site:- Welsh tapestry coats, capes and waistcoats; tweed coats, waistcoats and skirts; brushed tapestry duffle coats. Classic styles in pure wool exclusively available from our shop. Come and view our range on Friday March 16th and Saturday March 17th and we will offer you complimentary coffee, Welsh cakes and an offer to save 10% on any of the new garments purchased. www.t-w-m.co.uk
21st & 22nd Bute Fabrics
Dovecot Studios, Imfirmary Street Edinburgh, EH1 1LT
10.30 - 20.30 & 10.00 - 12.30
Bute Fabrics exhibiting our Newest & Classic Wool products. Wednesday evening event:CPD Presentation 'Using Wool in Woven Fabrics for Interiors'
April
5th – 7th Oct Akaratos exhibition
Venlo, Netherlands
10am - 7pm
During the World Horticultural Expo Floriade (www.floriade.com) in the city of Venlo, The Netherlands, Campaign for Wool partner Akaratos (www.akaratos.nl) will show a beautiful collection of woolen vases.
Floriade (www.floriade.com) will be officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on April 4th.
Marjan Eggels, the artist behind Akaratos (www.akaratos.nl) is a keen user of wool for her artistic work. Her objects inspired by nature can be seen at the exhibition Green E-Motion (www.green-e-motion.nl) from April 5th until October 7th 2012.
28th – 29th Wonderwool Wales Ltd
Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales
10am - 5.30pm
Wonderwool Wales is the Premier Wool & Natural Fibre Festival in Wales, with over 160 trade stands covering everything to do with wool, Woolschools and fibre animals, plus the famous Sheepwalk (catwalk).
May
Wool Modern exhibition opens in Australia
June
New Zealand celebrates Campaign for Wool
Melin Tregwynt Centenary Celebrations
2nd - 3rd Wimpole Estate National Trust
Wimpole Estate
11-5pm
A weekend to celebrate wool, with spinners and weavers, natural dyes and hand sheep shearing. Also learn about caring for woollen textiles, rugs and curtains in the Hall.
July
8th Hadrian's Wall Farmers' Market at Greenhead
Greenhead Hotel
10am - 4pm
Wool on the Wall - all about the local sheep and their wool, now it's clipping time! with clipping demonstrations; felting demonstration by Ellie Langley; spinning and weaving with Ruth Hicken; fleeces to buy; wonderful local British woollen goods to buy; insulation with wool plus Clipping Pudding on the pub menu and a Shearing Cake in the tearoom. All alongside the regular friendly Farmers' Market in the village hall. see www.woolonthewall.org / www.hadrianswallfarmersmarket.co.uk
8th Wool on the Wall Event (Community run)
Greenhead, Northumberland in Hadrian's Wall Country
10am - 4pm
Celebrate British Wool and learn more about what you can do with it at our 'Wool on the Wall' event at Greenhead Farmers' Market on 8th July. Includes demonstrations of shearing, felt making, spinning, weaving and dyeing and items for sale.
14th – 15th Fibre-East
Scald End Farm, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire
10am-4pm
A celebration of British fibre crafts. Three marquees of exhibitors, plus sheep breeds, shearing show, spinning, weaving, hand-dyeing, felting, fashion and much more. Website: www.fibre-east.co.uk. Fibre-East is a member of The Campaign for Wool.
19th – 21st Feis Cothlam : Gaelic Wool Festival
Benderloch, by Oban, Argyll
All day and evenings
Local Origins Rural Network, LORN , invites you to their second Gaelic Wool Festival - Feis Cothlam 2012 : a Celebration of all things Woolly in Argyll. A fun filled 3 day event, incorporating all things to do with crafts and products from sheep we can come up with - featuring the much acclaimed Gaelic Waulking Singers - Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh - based around Benderloch. On Thursday 19th July 2012 there is a supersized Local Producers market at Kintaline Farm, Benderloch, with all the usual attractions together with lots more displays, demonstrations, and stalls. There will be shearing, spinning, singing, knitting, horn work, and lots of ideas as to what you can make from sheep. Displays of fleeces, as well as innovative commerical products. Food is, as always a vital part of the LORN market - plenty to buy, and lots to eat on the day, along with cookery demonstrations - come and find out what to do with lamb, hogget and mutton of different breeds of sheep. On Friday 20th July 2012 there will be a variety of woolly crafty workshops which you will need to book in advance. We are open to suggestions if you would like to run something in the area. Handling fleeces ; Spinning ; Waulking a tweed and the Gaelic Working songs; Peg loom weaving; Felting; Knitting; Crochet work; are just some of the proposed workshops you can book. Please get in touch if you have a course or workshop you would like to offer. The costs of each one will vary. On Saturday 21st July 2012 the Victory Hall Benderloch is the venue for a day long drop in taster sessions for woolly crafts; stalls; displays and demonstrations. This is also a wonderful meeting time for all woolly enthusiasts to catch up with each other from all over the country, share their years work, explore new equipment and trade some fleeces. Saturday's finale is a full evening concert performance of the Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh (Inverclyde Waulking Singers) who will entertain us all with their gaelic working songs, just as the women of the Highlands and Islands sang to each other over centuries, as they spun, washed, milked and waulked the tweeds. The songs evoke the trials and tribulations of the life of our ancestors, as well as depict the history throughout the Hebrides.
August
October
15th – 21st 2012 Wool Week celebrations in the United Kingdom
Wool School is a collaboration between Campaign for Wool partner retailers and fashion universities; to create special wool rich (minimum 80%) sweaters which are available in store as a limited item, the sale of which starting with Wool Week 2012.
In 2011, in support of regional and local activity and support for CFW – Love Wool UK attracted nearly 700 individual events coordinated by individuals and groups themselves. It is expected to increase in 2012. The concept is to build knowledge and enthusiasm for wool activities to raise the profile of wool and the CFW and use the opportunity to capitalize on the groundswell of information which is now a part of the wool experience.
More activities will be unveiled as we near the time.
Campaign for Wool launches in France and Italy
WoolSoft (Wool Week)
Gloucestershire
I am in the very early stages of planning (trying to!) a 'Cotswold celebration of wool' which should be covering much of the Cotswolds/Gloucestershire, various events from knitting, spinning etc. to complete Interior room settings and hopefully fashion show. Lasting the week.
