Maine Fiberarts Tour Map

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.

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.

Fiber Arts Tour Weekend — August 7, 8, 9, 2009

As an added attraction, almost all of the sites will be open to the public August 7, 8, 9, 2009, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. for a Fiber Arts Tour Weekend at the height of Maine’s summer season. Details about our Fiber Arts Tour Weekend—August 7, 8, 9, 2009 are highlighted in this press release. Over 100 demonstrations, studios tours, farm visits, workshops and hands-on activities will be described.

See the tour map sites that are open on Fiber Arts Tour Weekend.

Tour Map Sites Open All Year

What will you see on 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 some of the sites that you can visit when you take the tour.

To Get Your Tour Map

• 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.

Pan around on the printed map. Use the plus and minus sliders and hold down your mouse on the map to move around.

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