ORGANIZATIONS
American
Cormo Sheep Association
Elsawool 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.
Elsawool has been a vendor at this event since 1984,
and has served on the MAVWA board of directors since 2008.
EVENTS
The Wool Festival at Taos
The Wool Festival at Taos is held every year during the first full weekend in October, in Kit Carson Park in Taos, New Mexico.
Fiber craft workshops are the held the week before and the week after the Festival.
Elsawool has been a vendor at this event since 1984, and plans to be a vendor on October 2nd and 3rd, 2010.
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. Elsawool has been a
vendor at this event in the past,
and plans to be a vendor on Memorial Day week-end in 2010.
Colorado Knitting Camp
The Colorado Knitting Camp will be held July 14th - 18th at the Residence Inn in Fort Collins, Colorado.
This year's teacher will be Nancy Bush.
For more information. please contact Gay Robinson at nams1@comcast.net.
FIBER ANIMALS
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, hand-spun and mill-spun roving, 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.
Oklahoma
State University
This web site has good information about breeds of sheep, goats, and other
livestock.
LIVESTOCK PROTECTION
DOGS
Anatolian
Shepherd Dogs International, Inc.
The
Livestock Guardian Dog Association
LIVESTOCK HERDING DOGS
Stockdogs,
Journal of Livestock Working Dogs
FIBER CRAFTS
Knitters Review
A free weekly on-line knitting magazine dedicated to yarn, from source
to skein.
Elsawool'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, hand-spun and mill-spun 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
Elsawool.
Ravelry
An online knit and crochet community where you can organize projects, share your work,
find new designs and yarns, and much more.
