VENDORS: We are now full. For details and contact info go HERE.
The Marketplace, Vendors, Makers Meetup, Exhibits, and Demos are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Our Marketplace vendors provide convenient access to yarns, fiber, tools, and equipment related to weaving, spinning, dyeing and related fiber arts including many workshop-related items.
Questions about the Marketplace? Email Vendor Coordinator Dornan Trainer at vendors@mafafiber.org.
The Vendor List is HERE
Download the Vendor List and Schedule as a PDF HERE
MAFA 2025 Marketplace Hours
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Thursday, June 26 | Noon – 6:00 pm – Marketplace and Makers Meetup Open |
| Friday, June 27 | Noon – 6:00 pm – Marketplace, Makers Meetup, and Exhibits Open |
| 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. – Marketplace closed for dinner break | |
| 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. – “Shop-til-You-Drop”, Spinning Games, Book Signings, Exhibits | |
| Saturday, June 28 | 10:00 am – 6:00 pm – Marketplace, Makers Meetup, and Exhibits Open |
Marketplace highlights will include:
- “Shop-’til-You-Drop” – Friday night, including door prizes, book signings, and Viewers Choice voting.
- Spinning Games – Friday evening, with host Tom Knisely.
- Fashion, Functional Textiles, Fiber Art, and Towel Exchange Exhibits – Friday and Saturday.
- Interactive Exhibit – Friday and Saturday.
- Makers Meetup – Thursday and Friday afternoon, and all-day Saturday. Relax, meet fiber friends, work on projects, and join in make-and-take demos.
- Weekend Classes – Friday afternoon and all-day Saturday, three-hour classes in spinning, weaving, fiber prep, stitching, and rug hooking.
- Daytrippers and Overnighters Housing and Meal Options – for all four days, or Friday and/or Saturday night.
- And more!
MAFA is grateful to our Marketplace Supporters:
To support conference activities with an advertisement, visit the Supporters page HERE.
Marketplace and Makers Meetup Fiber Arts Demos
| Time | Demo | Vendor | Booth # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ongoing | Great wheel spinning demos, and there will be plenty of fiber on hand to give spinning on the great wheel a try. | Wheelers Chairs | Vendor Booth 4 |
| Ongoing | Slow-stitch embroidery on Nuno felting. | Neal Howard, Hencefoth Yarns | Vendor Booth 5 |
| Ongoing | Knitting techniques. | Christa Hobson, Aisling Yarns | Vendor Booth 27 |
| Ongoing | Will be demonstrating rug braiding techniques off and on throughout the day. | Marjorie Corrow, Braider’s Circle | Vendor Booth 13 |
| Ongoing | Weaving on a Saori or other small loom. | Flora Daniels, Flora’s Fiber Farrago | Vendor Booth 25 |
| Ongoing | FUZZY BUNNIES!!! | Lorraine and Pete Hanson, THE Fuzzy Ear | Vendor Booth 15 |
| Ongoing | Demos of Purrington Looms and tools. | Bruce Bannerman, Purrington Looms | Vendor Booth 17 |
| Ongoing | Drop spindle demos. | Heather Kennedy, Zen Fiber Arts | Vendor Booth 28 |
| Friday, June 27 | |||
| Noon | Art batt carding. | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |
| 1:00 pm | How to use locks with needle or hook. | Donna Walton-Gibbs, Leicester Longwool Co. | Makers Meetup |
| 2:00 pm | Stranded knitting. | Tracy Aichele | Makers Meetup |
| 3:00 pm | Freestyle weaving. | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |
| 4:00 pm | How to use locks in weaving and wet felting. | Donna Walton-Gibbs, Leicester Longwool Co. | Makers Meetup |
| 6:30-7:30 pm | Book Signing – Susan Kesler-Simpson, Summer and Winter Simply and Weaving Hand Towels Simply. | Stackpole Books | Vendor Booth 7 |
| 6:30-7:30pm | Book Signing – Tom Knisely. | Stackpole Books | Vendor Booth 7 |
| 7:30-8:30 pm | Book Signing – Cindy Conner, Homegrown Flax and Cotton. | Stackpole Books | Vendor Booth 7 |
| Saturday, June 28 | |||
| 11:00 am | Make & take circular weavings. | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |
| Noon | Color fiber blending. | Dia Robinson, Twisted Urban Fiber Arts | Makers Meetup |
| 1:00 pm | Talk: All about buttons! | Jennifer Lackovic, Button Babes | Makers Meetup |
| 2:00 pm | How to use locks in yarnmaking. | Donna Walton-Gibbs, Leicester Longwool Co. | Makers Meetup |
| 3:00 pm | Color fiber blending. | Dia Robinson, Twisted Urban Fiber Arts | Makers Meetup |
| 4:00 pm | Windings (small woven artworks.) | Q Wirtz, Foldout Cat | Makers Meetup |