New England Weavers' Seminar: Marketplace
BELFAST FIBERARTS LLC
Alice Seeger has been creating and teaching textile arts for nearly 50 years. She owns and operates Belfast Fiberarts, a community weaving studio, maker space and fiber arts consignment located, a short walk from the Harbor in Belfast, Maine. Belfast Fiberarts is an authorized dealer for Schacht Spindle Company, Ashford Wheels and weaving yarn from Gist and Maurice Brassard. We will have a variety of weaving equipment and tools, floor looms, table looms, rigid heddle looms, inkle looms, and tapestry looms on display and available for sale.
Big Sky Farm Handweaving
Lee Greenwalt has been weaving for 45 years and studied with Betty Atwood at the University of Vermont. She took classes at Harrisville Designs taught by Leslie Voiers and Nancy Lyon. She specializes in color for household textiles and sells at sheep and wool festivals. Offered for sale will be hand towels in cotton, rayon, and linen; wool blankets in various sizes; rag rugs made from re-purposed wool and cotton fabrics; hand knit caps and mittens; and after market yarns.
Dirty Girl Yarn
Heidi Forsch, owner, is a self taught spinner and dyer based in Southern Vermont. Her art and lock spun yarns are ideal for adding a fun twist to traditional yarn craft projects. Her colors and textures beg to be touched. Heidi sources her fiber as locally as possible with many raw fleeces coming from neighboring farms in Vermont, New York and New England. Yarns showcase the natural texture found in wool and other fibers. Often you’ll find playful components such as tiny vintage toys, crystals, beads, recycled cassette tape, and more in the yarn. Each skein is unique and many are one of a kind. Dirty Girl Yarns also provides hand dyed roving in a variety of wools and wool blends for artists to create their own hand spun yarn or felting projects. Heidi focuses on rich, vibrant colors and unusual color combinations you won’t find other places.
With roots in Guatemala and upstate New York, Mayan Hands brings you artfully crafted goods made by talented Maya women artisans. Our product collection blends heritage techniques, like backstop weaving, and innovations like pine needle basketry and needle felting introduced via artisan trainings. Our design process is a creative collaboration between our artisan partners and our team in New York, capturing the vibrant colors and exceptional craftsmanship that are a hallmark of Guatemalan design.
Founded in 1989 by Brenda Rosenbaum, a Guatemalan anthropologist, we are a women-led 501c3 and a proud fair trade organization. Today, Mayan Hands works with 18 groups of Maya women artisans located in rural communities in five departments in Guatemala, who represent four different Mayan language groups. We envision a world in which skilled women artisans are celebrated for their talents, receive sustainable, fair pay for their work, and have the financial stability needed to develop their potential and make decisions for their future.
Mayan Hands
Monroe Bridge Books
Kathleen Pew has been selling used and rare books since 1999. She is currently a member of MABA (Maine Antiquarian Booksellers Assn). You may have seen her booth previously at NEWS, Sheep and Wool Festivals or Marshfield School of Weaving. Monroe Bridge Books buys and sells used and rare books, specializing in the Textile Arts, including weaving, spinning, dyeing, history, scientific books used in the textile industry, knitting, crocheting, quilting and more.
Stephen Willette
Stephen Willette crafts heirloom quality Wooden Fiber Art Tools for people who weave, spin, knit and crochet. As a state juried member of the League of New Hamshire Craftsman, he maintains the high standards of quality required by the league in all of his work. Some of the tools he offers are yarn bowls, looms, assorted weaving tools, spindles, glass tip support spindles, lucets, crochet hooks, shawl pins and various needles.
WEBS
Based in Northampton, MA, WEBS has been supplying New England weavers and fibers enthusiasts with the looms, yarn, fiber, tools, and books they need for over 50 years. This year’s NEWS booth will feature your favorite staples from Schacht and Toika, as well as samples of Valley Yarns weaving drafts to inspire your next project. Be sure to check out our video showing the Toika computer-assist lobby loom in action, and ask about the exciting opportunity to bring a computer loom home with you. WEBS also offers weaving, spinning, knitting and crochet yarn; fiber, supplies and classes.
Wool & Dye Works
Wools and Dye Works supplies wool fabric, roving/batt, and wool thread to crafters and sewers in the US and abroad. We have all you need for your next wool project, be it rug hooking, rug braiding, sewing, wool appliqué or needle felting. Wool appliqué kits and needle felting kits will also be available.
