Explore your creativity, add to your skills and pursue interests in the fiber arts. Vendors will offer demonstrations, supplies, tools, handspun and hand dyed yarn, and finished goods.

The Great Smoky Mountains Fiber Fair will be hosting a variety of classes and workshops. If you are interested in instructing such a class, please fill out this form. Vendors are also welcome to register here. All applications must be in by March 1, 2023.

Great Smoky Mountains Fiber Fair workshops will be on Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22, 2023. Class scheduling and cancellations will be determined by Fair Management. Signups will be accepted on the day of the event. All instructors should be prepared to handle the maximum number of signups.

More information about the 2023 event will be posted as it becomes available.

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Explore your creativity, add to your skills and pursue interests in the fiber arts. Twenty-seven new classes this year. The Festival focuses on the “sheep to shawl” concept – transforming fleece into finished goods and art pieces. Vendors offer demonstrations, supplies, tools, handspun and hand dyed yarn, and finished goods.

See the fiber on the hoof and foot–llamas, sheep, goats, and angora rabbits.

Class registration is open now. Register to learn basic skills and advanced techniques in classes, ranging from fiber preparation to weaving on multiple types of looms and felting, knitting, and crochet and dyeing with natural dyes.

Presented by the Townsend Artisan and the Tennessee Valley Handspinners Guilds. Sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Commission, Arts and Cultural Alliance of Knoxville, and Blount Partnership.

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