Category: Past Events

Before and After – Washing greatly changes the appearance and feel of textiles. The wool “blooms” and becomes much softer and fluffier. This process also strengthens the fabric as the wool begins to full (felt) and interlock.

These scarves were woven at the Derry Township Agricultural Fair for our Sheep to Scarf demo. Since they were woven with raw (unwashed) fleece, the difference is even more noticeable. The extra lanolin, dirt, and vegetable mater is washed out, changing the yarn from beige to white.

We wove two scarves on the same loom this year at the Derry Agricultural Fair on July 12, 2023, and auctioned them. Thank you to everyone who participated and stopped by!

Highlights from the 1st annual Fayette County Fiber Festival which took place on May 20, 2023

PA Farm Show 2020

Westmoreland Fair Spinning Demo 2019

Earth Day Celebration 2019 at the Winnie Palmer Nature Preserve

 

Photos from the Westmoreland County Fair of members carding, spinning and weaving.

 

Past Events include:

• The Compass Inn, Laughlintown, a restored drovers inn where drovers would stop with their herds on the way east to Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia
• West Overton Museum, Scottdale, birthplace of Henry Clay Frick
• We participate annually in Earth Day held on the Saint Vincent campus, Latrobe.
• The Historic Fulton House in New Derry during their Lammas Day Festival
• The Flax Scutching Festival in Stahlstown
• Women in Agriculture Display and Demo at the Westmoreland Mall
• Westmoreland Agricultural Fair with fleece to shawl demonstrations and nightly spinning demonstrations
• Derry Township Agricultural Fair
• Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Fayette County
• Friendship Hill National Historic Site, home of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg