Here we list events that may be of interest to our members.
We will consider listing additional fibre / craft related events.If you would like an event to be listed please contact webmaster@buckswsd.org.uk.
Exhibitions
- Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design – Ashmolean Museum, Oxford until 18th Feb 2024
- Crossing the Warp: Thread by thread exhibition – Whitchurch Silk Mill 13th Jan to 17th March 2024
- Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles – Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft until Sun 14th April 2024.
- Bucks Art Weeks – open studios through Buckinghamshire, including some guild members – 8th – 23rd June 2024.
Fibre Festivals
- Unravel – Farnham Maltings, Surrey – 23rd- 25th February 2024
Marketplace and workshops, which are back to all in-person this year. - Creative Craft Show, NEC Birmingham – 14th – 17th March 2024
Covers all kinds of crafts including crochet, knitting and felting. - Stitch Festival – Business Design Centre, London 21st – 24th March 2024
Textiles displays, stalls and workshops including knitting & crochet. - Wonderwool Wales– Builth Wells, Powys – 27th & 28th April 2024
A celebration of Welsh Wool from start to finish. - Mill Open Weekend – South Molton, Devon – 8th – 9th June 2024
Talks, classes, mills tours and invited vendors, plus some virtual offerings. - Summer Wool Festival – Ampthill, Beds – 27th & 28th July 2024
Lots of fibre and yarn sellers plus dyeing supplies, spinning and weaving equipment and guild demonstrations. Also a few workshops which sell out quickly. - Creative Craft Show – Farnborough International, GU14 6TQ – 30th August to 1st September 2024
- Southern Wool Show – Newbury Racecourse, Berks – 7th & 8th September 2024
Run by the same team as the Summer Wool Festival. - Unravel Autumn – Farnham Maltings, Surrey – hopefully September 2024
New-ish festival, similar to the February offering. - Yarndale – Skipton Auction Market, N. Yorks – 28th & 29th September 2024
With a programme of talks, workshops and lots of exhibitors. - Shetland Wool Week – online or Lerwick, Shetland – 29th Sept – 5th Oct 2024
Internationally renowned celebration of Shetland wool and knitting. - Knitting & Stitching Show – Alexandra Palace, London – 10th – 13th October 2024
Textile galleries, workshops and loads of stalls of yarn. - Bakewell Wool Gathering – Bakewell Agricultural Centre, Derbyshire – 19th & 20th October 2024
Shows / Demonstrations
Queen’s Park Art Centre – Open Day – May
Bucks County Show – Thurs 29th August 2024 – Chiltern Spinners exhibiting
Wild About Wool – Chiltern Open Air Museum – mid October
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