Festival Updates and Community Profiles

New Vendor Profile:  Sandra Sobkowich Wiebe (The Loom Room) Sandra has been weaving, spinning, dyeing, and creating her works of art since the 1970s.  Her work includes a multitude of threads, fibres and anything weavable.  You will see over 100 different type and colours of threads in each piece- from her one of a kind [...]

Meet new vendor Yvonne Yvon Martens of  "A Gentler Time". I make and sell Waldorf inspired dolls made of natural fibre sourced as much as possible here in Manitoba and in Canada. I started making dolls as I wound down my nursing career but  it really became my art after my retirement. My first doll [...]

New Vendor Profile 2020: Remii's Rovings & Yarn Hi, my name is Arlene and I am the maker behind Remii’s Rovings & Yarn.  I have a Etsy shop and you can find me on Instagram and Facebook.  I specialize in hand dyed yarns on various bases.  I enjoy sourcing out different types of yarn bases [...]

New vendor profile for the Manitoba Fibre Festival 2020 --- welcome, Melanie! Melanie Wesley Studio is my professional name and the name I use everywhere online. Because I’m a visual artist with a very broad repertoire, my own name is a nice umbrella to keep it all under and it allows me the flexibility I [...]

For fibre people, the sense of touch is particularly precious. We approach every project in great anticipation of the pleasures arising from those ineffable qualities described as sproing, squish, softness, and super yummy-licious-ness. The Festival is a hands-on experience. From the warmth and bounce of the living creatures growing the wool -- To the lanolin [...]

Teyana Neufeld used to live in south-western Manitoba, but she now qualifies as the person who travels the furthest to teach at the Manitoba Fibre Festival!  In her own words, here's some of her story  ----  While flying out of O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johanesburg last week, I was trying to decide whether or [...]

Introducing our fabulous 2019 custom colourway, a self-striping yarn dyed for the Festival by Allyson Schneider of "Dye for Ewe".  Allyson has named her creation "At the Ram's Head", as the colour inspiration is derived from our ram's head logo. This limited edition yarn will be for sale at the Festival merchandise table on September [...]

The Textile and Fibre Artists of Manitoba have selected Helen Knockaert as their featured artist during the Festival, September 13 & 14. Helen's work will be on display as part of the TFAM curated fibre art show, "Circles and Spirals". Helen Knockaert comes from the prairies.  She grew up on a farm in Manitoba.  It [...]

Janet Carroll is a Winnipeg based artist who works primarily in paper marbling and book binding.  Carroll’s work has been exhibited in Canada and elsewhere.  She has been a recipient of a Manitoba Arts Council Grant and has been an Artist-In-Residence at the Minnesota Center Book For Arts. We are honoured to have Janet teaching [...]

One of the highlights of the Festival is the Fleece Show and Sale, where fibre farmers compete in several classes for the honour of champion fleece, and where avid spinners and felters get to examine and buy whole raw fleeces. The show includes wool from many breeds of sheep as well as angora goat fleeces. [...]

Joanne Seiff is the author of "Knit Green: 20 Projects and Ideas for Sustainability". Knit Green offers information and ideas on how to be a more environmentally conscious knitter, from sourcing materials locally and using organic products, to supporting fair work and fair trade programs.  Since the book was written Joanne has continued to explore sustainability [...]