The Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site will host a Fiber Fair on Saturday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Fiber Fair will include demonstrations of how to work with wool, with skills like shearing, skirting, washing, carding, and spinning wool, but also techniques for dying, weaving, knitting, felting, and crocheting with the sheep’s wool.
The demonstrations will be done using Navajo Churro Sheep wool, which has a long history in New Mexico.
The event will also feature two food trucks on site, as well as a mobile museum from the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs with an exhibit from the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. Demonstrations on different yucca fiber arts, basket weaving, and turkey blankets will be hosted by the Office of Archaeological Studies.
Event admission is $7 per person, with children 16 and under admitted for free. Admission include access to all of the demonstrations held throughout the day and access to the Memorial exhibition, “Bosque Redondo…A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival,”
Admission is free for Friends of the Bosque Redondo Memorial, Indigenous People, or Museum of New Mexico Foundation members.