Welcome to the web page for the St Abbs Wool Festival. Our next event will be Saturday 2nd November. Updates will be posted when we have more news about exhibitors, exhibitions and displays so please keep coming back to check what's going on.
Exhibitor list for 2nd November
We had a ball on Saturday, thank you all for coming along and sharing the fun.
We are once again holding the wool festival in the Eyemouth Community Centre in Eyemouth. With the extra room for more stalls and demonstrations, workshops, even a cuppa & cake - and somewhere to sit, craft and chatter we feel spoilt.
The focus of the festival is on local professional craftspeople who we know that you visit outwith the festival - feedback from visitors would indicate that some of you bring shopping lists with you!
Since picking up the baton for organising the festival in 2013 I’ve become aware of the number of outstanding professional craft workers in this region and feel that St Abbs Wool Festival should be about promoting their talents and helping to stimulate long term relationships between us craft workers and you craft enthusiasts, after all, none of us are so far apart that a practical crafting workshop or personal buying trip couldn’t be fitted into a day trip!
Some of us are also part of the Sheep Tales project - click on the coloured text for more information about this - and we get involved in lots of different events in the region. We know that working as a group helps to raise the profile of all the individual members as well as the general awareness of the importance of the woollen industry to our rural areas, particularly in the north of England and Southern Scotland.
We are once again holding the wool festival in the Eyemouth Community Centre in Eyemouth. With the extra room for more stalls and demonstrations, workshops, even a cuppa & cake - and somewhere to sit, craft and chatter we feel spoilt.
The focus of the festival is on local professional craftspeople who we know that you visit outwith the festival - feedback from visitors would indicate that some of you bring shopping lists with you!
Since picking up the baton for organising the festival in 2013 I’ve become aware of the number of outstanding professional craft workers in this region and feel that St Abbs Wool Festival should be about promoting their talents and helping to stimulate long term relationships between us craft workers and you craft enthusiasts, after all, none of us are so far apart that a practical crafting workshop or personal buying trip couldn’t be fitted into a day trip!
Some of us are also part of the Sheep Tales project - click on the coloured text for more information about this - and we get involved in lots of different events in the region. We know that working as a group helps to raise the profile of all the individual members as well as the general awareness of the importance of the woollen industry to our rural areas, particularly in the north of England and Southern Scotland.
