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Events: Wool Days


Wool Days
May 29, 2010 - May 31, 2010
9:30 AM-5:00 PM
 

Sheep

The sheep get their yearly "haircuts" this weekend. Farmers shear the sheep, and costumed history interpreters demonstrate the entire wool textile process, from scouring and carding the wool to spinning, knitting and weaving the handspun wool yarn into a blanket. Try your hand at carding the wool, and then see how the Village's 19th-century water-powered carding mill does the same job much faster.

Meet the lambs, chickens, cows and oxen, and watch a host of daily demonstrations, including musket firing, hearth cooking, printing, coopering, blacksmithing, shoe-making and launching toy hot air balloons.

 
 
Wool Days Upcoming Dates
Saturday, May 29, 2010 - Monday, May 31, 2010
at 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM