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#RiverheadNY - Long Island #FleeceAndFiber Fair at #Hallockville #MuseumFarm

May 16 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Hallockville Museum Farm
6038 Sound Avenue
Riverhead NY

Admission is $10 for adults; children 12 and under are free.

"Hallockville Museum Farm will host its annual Long Island Fleece & Fiber Festival on Saturday, May 16, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. inviting visitors to experience the full journey of fiber – from raw fleece to finished textile — at its historic North Fork campus.

"A longtime spring tradition, the festival brings the cycle of fiber to life through live sheep and llama shearing with Long Island Yarn and Farm, #spinning, and #weaving demonstrations, along with a #marketplace featuring more than two dozen regional #FiberArtists and #Artisans.

"A major highlight this year is the appearance of nationally recognized #knitting expert Patty Lyons, who will lead two special sessions focused on practical techniques and problem solving for knitters. Additional hands-on workshops include an introduction to weaving with the #PaumanokWeavers, where participants can create their own scarf; a flat #NeedleFelted farm landscape workshop led by Shamma Murphy; and #BasketWeaving with Barbara Blossey-Chuvalas using #NaturalMaterials such as #silk, #seagrass, and #wool. Advance registration is required for workshops.

"In addition to demonstrations and workshops, visitors can explore a variety of family-friendly activities, including a children’s #craft area, agricultural displays, and opportunities to meet the farm’s animals. Attendees are welcome to bring their #FiberArts projects to work amongst like-minded creators.

" 'The Fleece & Fiber Festival connects people directly to the traditions that shaped life on the #NorthFork,' said Executive Director Heather Johnson. 'It’s a chance to see, touch, and learn skills that were once part of everyday life here and that continue to inspire #makers today.'

"The festival also features live music by the Old Time Jam, local food vendors, and a bake sale hosted by Hallockville Bakers."

FMI:
https://www.eastendbeacon.com/event/long-island-fleece-fiber-fair-at-hallockville-museum-farm/

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T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Ultimate Basket Book: A Cornucopia of Popular Designs to Make by Lyn Siler

The Ultimate Basket Book: A Cornucopia of Popular Designs to Make (2006) presents itself as an expansive, practical craft volume: it combines The Basket Book and Handmade Baskets, adds ten extra projects, and includes new colour photography. The edition is listed as a 192-page book published by Lark Books in New York, and the available descriptions emphasize that Lyn Siler covers tools, materials, and foundational basket-making techniques. 

What makes the book interesting, even from its catalog description, is the rhetoric of abundance embedded in the title itself. “Cornucopia” is not a decorative flourish but a governing metaphor: this is a book about plenitude, variation, and the pleasure of making. Its technical vocabulary—“weaving, plaiting, coiling, twining, and wailing”—has an almost incantatory rhythm, turning instruction into something close to a verbal loom. That cadence matters because it suggests a craft manual that does not merely explain how baskets are made; it dramatizes the grammar of making itself. 

The book’s strongest promise is its balance between utility and artistry. It aims to help readers create “functional everyday baskets,” including forms such as the “Twill Weave Market” and “Double Lidded Picnic” baskets, while also making room for decorative work and a “beautiful brand-new colour photography” gallery. That dual emphasis gives the volume a quietly persuasive aesthetic philosophy: a basket is never just a container, but a visible record of patience, skill, and design intelligence. In that sense, Siler’s book belongs to the finest tradition of craft writing, where instruction becomes a way of honouring ordinary objects as made things, and made things as forms of cultural memory. 

Overall, this appears to be a generous, reader-friendly manual that treats basketry as both accessible technique and artful inheritance. Its lasting appeal seems to lie in that combination: practical enough to teach, rich enough to admire, and structured enough to invite both beginners and experienced makers into the same creative conversation.

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🧺✨ #Basketweaving is an ancient #art, and while materials change, the fundamental techniques remain consistent across cultures.

In #Maine, maker Little Salty Rope uses the same polypropylene rope lobster harvesters use to haul traps, weaving it row by row on a circular peg jig. The #video shows how vertical stakes hold the form until the basket becomes self-supporting.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/handweaving-polypropylene-rope-basket?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=handweaving-polypropylene-rope-basket

#activities #weaving #crafts #maker #handmade #design #tksst

🧺✨ #Basketweaving is an ancient #art, and while materials change, the fundamental techniques remain consistent across cultures.

In #Maine, maker Little Salty Rope uses the same polypropylene rope lobster harvesters use to haul traps, weaving it row by row on a circular peg jig. The #video shows how vertical stakes hold the form until the basket becomes self-supporting.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/handweaving-polypropylene-rope-basket?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=handweaving-polypropylene-rope-basket

#activities #weaving #crafts #maker #handmade #design #tksst

Besoin d'une #saccoche, d'un #portefeuille, d'une #protection pour un #smartphone, et t'as des vielles #chambreaair ? #tkt, #noproblem !

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