EVENTS
MAVWA,
or Mountain and Valley Wool Association
This association promotes fiber animals and animal fiber crafts in
Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
It produces the Wool Festival At Taos, which is held every year during the
first full weekend in October,
and which includes workshops the week before and the week after the
Festival.
Elsa Wool Company
has been a vendor at this event for the past 21 years, and plans to
be a vendor on October 6th and 7th, 2007.
Estes Park Wool
Market
email addresses:
events@estes.org
spinwool@hughes.net
Pagosa
Fiber Festival
This 2-day event features fiber animal exhibits, fiber craft
demonstrations and workshops, as well as
vendor booths and a Navajo rug auction. Elsa Wool Company has been a
vendor at this event in the past,
and plans to be a vendor on Memorial Day week-end in 2007.
Best
of the Southwest
This organization educates about and promotes the Southwestern United
States, especially the Four Corners Region.
They produce the Best of the Southwest Fiber Arts Festival every year on
Veterans Day week-end.
ORGANIZATIONS
American
Cormo Sheep Association
Elsa Wool Company is a member of this industry association dedicated
to Cormo sheep and wool.
MAVWA,
or Mountain and Valley Wool Association
This association promotes fiber animals and animal fiber crafts in
Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
It produces the Wool Festival At Taos, which is held every year during the
first full weekend in October,
and which includes workshops the week before and the week after the
Festival.
Elsa Wool Company
has been a vendor at this event for the past 21 years, and plans to
be a vendor on October 6th and 7th, 2007.
Best
of the Southwest
This organization educates about and promotes the Southwestern United
States, especially the Four Corners Region.
They produce the Best of the Southwest Fiber Arts Festival every year on
Veterans Day week-end.
UNIVERSITIES AND
COLLEGES
Oklahoma
State University
This web site has good information about breeds of sheep, goats, and other
livestock.
BOOKS, MAGAZINES,
VIDEOS, ETC.
Knitter's
Review
A free weekly online knitting magazine dedicated to yarn, from source
to skein.
Elsa Wool Company's Cormo yarns were reviewed in October and December of
2005 and March of 2006.
Stockdogs,
Journal of Livestock Working Dogs
FIBER ANIMALS
American
Cormo Sheep Association
Elsa Wool Company is a member of this industry association dedicated
to Cormo sheep and wool.
Wynham
Farms
Kathy Martin, with her daughter Kelley, raises Angora goats in Colorado,
and buys sheep and alpaca wools, mostly from Colorado.
Kathy washes, dyes, blends, and spins these fibers,
and she sells washed mohair locks, handspun and millspun roving, and
yarns, patterns, and kits.
She also teaches pickin', grinnin', and spinnin'.
La
Plata Farms
La Plata Farms, in Hesperus, Colorado, is owned by Doug and Pam Ramsey.
The Ramseys raise Navajo Churro and Lincoln sheep. They sell sheep,
fleeces, and supplies and books for spinners, dyers, knitters, and
crocheters.
Shear
Perfection Ranch
Jerry and Lyn Brown raise California Red sheep in La Plata, New Mexico.
California Reds were created from Tunis and Barbados stock.
LIVESTOCK PROTECTION
DOGS
Anatolian
Shepherd Dogs International, Inc.
The
Livestock Guardian Dog Association
LIVESTOCK HERDING DOGS
Stockdogs,
Journal of Livestock Working Dogs
FIBER CRAFTS
Knitter's
Review
A free weekly online knitting magazine dedicated to yarn, from source
to skein.
Elsa Wool Company's Cormo yarns were reviewed in October and December of
2005 and March of 2006.
Wynham
Farms
Kathy Martin, with her daughter Kelley, raises Angora goats in Colorado,
and buys sheep and alpaca wools, mostly from Colorado.
Kathy washes, dyes, blends, and spins these fibers,
and she sells washed mohair locks, handspun and millspun roving, and
yarns, patterns, and kits.
She also teaches pickin', grinnin', and spinnin'.
La
Plata Farms
La Plata Farms, in Hesperus, Colorado, is owned by Doug and Pam Ramsey.
The Ramseys raise Navajo Churro and Lincoln sheep. They sell sheep,
fleeces, and supplies and books for spinners, dyers, knitters, and
crocheters.
Ellen's
Wooly Wonders
Really neat handcrafted wool creatures and gifts, and patterns for
making some of these things yourself.
Red
Bird Knits
A small family-run business in Toronto, Ontario, selling knitting yarns, needles,
books, and patterns,
and specializing in sock and lace knitting.
Robyn Gallimore, the owner, says that her goal is
to provide excellent, timely, and personalized service,
and a good range of interesting and exciting yarns.
She carries several lace and fingering weight Cormo yarns from Elsa
Sheep and Wool Company.
A
Simple Piece of String
A Simple Piece of String is
owned by Kathy Gilliland and Elaine Sipes,
who are neighbors in Livermore, Colorado.
Kathy raises alpacas. Elaine raises alpacas and llamas.
Both spin, weave, knit, felt, and dye.
They sell equipment and supplies for spinners, weavers, knitters, and
crocheters,
and they hold classes for others wanting to learn fiber crafts.
