Maine Fiberarts Tour Map: Studios and Farms
Maine Fiberarts
Tour Map: Studios & Farms is a 24” x
36", illustrated, full color printed map locating
over 130 fiber destinations statewide. Sites may be visited
all year long throughout three years—2009–2012—on
a self-guided, “best to phone ahead” basis.
The Tour Map is your guide for discovering art studios,
cashmere farms, spinneries, yarn stores, fabric shops,
and galleries along the byways and back roads of Maine.
Our Tour Map provides contact info, descriptions and
driving directions to make visiting easy.
To Get Your Tour
Printed Map
Pick up a FREE copy of Maine Fiberarts Tour
Map at any of the following locations:
- Maine Fiberarts Center/Gallery, 13 Main
Street, Topsham, Maine (open weekdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.)
- Maine State Visitor Information Centers in
Calais, Fryeburg, Hampden North, Hampden South, Houlton,
Kittery, or Yarmouth
- Convention & Visitors Bureau of
Greater Portland, distributing through: Portland Jetport,
Amtrak Train/Bus Terminal, Commercial Street Center, 295
Deering Oaks in Portland
- Maine Fiberarts Tour Map participants
- Art, craft and agricultural fairs and festivals throughout
Maine
- Halcyon Yarn, 12 School Street, Bath,
Maine
- Center for Maine Craft, 24 Service
Plaza Drive, West Gardiner, Maine
- Maine Tourism Association, 327 Water
Street, Hallowell, Maine
To have a map mailed to you, send $5 with
your name and address to Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main Street,
Topsham, Maine 04086-1219.
Fiber Arts Tour Weekend 2010 — First
full weekend in August
As an added attraction,
over 50 sites on the printed map are open to the public
on August 6, 7, 8, 2010 for
a Fiber Arts Tour
Weekend at
the height of Maine’s
summer season.
Demonstrations, studios tours, farm visits, workshops
and hands-on activities are described.
See the tour map
sites that are open on the 2010 Fiber Arts Tour Weekend.
Download a text file of the press
release about the 2010 weekend.
What will you see on the tour?
Farms with cashmere goats, natural dye gardens,
a collection of antique spinning wheels, freshly-shorn wool fleeces, handspun
yarns, art wearables, fiber processing mills, contemporary
quilts, island studios, hand-dyed fabrics, woven tapestries,
yarn shops, cozy blankets, sheep in the meadow, hooked rug
supplies, knitted copper, felted llama wool, handcrafted
spindles, silk capes, a papermaking studio in an old mill,
blended rovings, angora rabbits, whimsical folk art, sewing
instruction, farm chores, reed baskets, and special crafts
for children.
See
tour map sites listed on our on-line map. Search this
map by town, type of fiber, geographic location, studio
or farm, or by key word.
Pan around on the
printed map. Use the plus and minus sliders and hold
down your mouse on the map to move around.
See
photos of some of the sites that you can visit when you
take the tour.
Visitors can learn more about Maine’s thriving
fiber scene by visiting Maine Fiberarts in Topsham. A statewide nonprofit
organization formed in the year 2000, we offer: networking, revolving exhibitions
(sculptural knitting, hooked rugs, woven wall hangings, patchwork quilts),
photo image libraries, event notices, informative newsletters, membership,
and other visuals to introduce the public to Maine fiber art and farms.
Interested in Being Listed on Future
Maps?
If you live and work in Maine and are involved
with fiber, you may be interested in being listed on future
maps. The best way to keep informed and to participate in
our programs is to become
a member of Maine Fiberarts.
With Thanks to our Sponsors
Maine
Fiberarts thanks the financial supporters and sponsors who
make the Tour Map possible:
- Anonymous Donors
- Bridge Farm, Dresden, Maine
- David & Margo Knight, Brunswick, Maine
- Dragonfly Cove Farm/ Member of Thyme for Goat, Dresden,
Maine
- H. King & Jean Cummings Charitable Fund
- Halcyon Yarn, Bath, Maine
- International Year of Natural Fibres, Rome, Italy
- Knitting Out Loud Audiobooks, Stockton Springs, Maine
- Maine Community Foundation—Expansion Arts Fund
- Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
- Maine Innkeepers Association
- Maine Office of Tourism, 2006, 2009
- National Endowment for the Arts—Challenge America Program
- Otto Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation—Greater
Piscataqua Region
- SARE Northeast Region: Sustainable Agriculture, Research & Education
- The Betterment Fund
- Thomas Haas, New Hampshire
- Tour Map participants and Maine Fiberarts' members
- Wild Fibers Magazine, Rockland, Maine
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