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Invitation to Feis Cothlam 2012 : gaelic wool festival

It has been - and it was WONDERFUL ....
Here are links to all the amazing people and products we had at the wool festival market.
And here is the beginnings of the photo gallery of the whole thing - check back in the days to come as more will be added once we have caught our breath
thank you to everyone.

IT IS HERE - and IT is Happening !

go to www.facebook.com/lornargyll for all the latest news and pictures of what we are doing RIGHT NOW !!

July 21st to July 23rd 2011 is a celebration of everything woolly in North Argyll.

It is ALL happening -- keep up with the news as it happens on www.facebook.com/lornargyll

last years woolfest

  • scroll down for further details - being updated regularly now

    Thursday 21st July 2011
    Feis Cothlam 2011 Local Food and Crafts Producers Market, at Kintaline Farm, Benderloch which is a mega WOOLLY event : live music, singing, spinning, displays, demonstrations, innovative woolly products, cookery demonstrations with lamb and mutton, fleeces, shearing, cuddly lambs,
    10 am to 3 pm - free parking and entry - lots of food to eat on the day, come and meet up with friends and family and learn about how versatile our sheep can be, as well as how to get creative.

    Friday 22nd July 2011
    Craft courses including

  • Spinning;
  • The gaelic songs and tweed waulking;
  • Preparing a raw fleece for craft work;
  • Peg loom weaving,
    around the North Connel and Benderloch area click here for details of the courses available

    Saturday 23rd 2011
    Woolly crafty displays and taster sessions, stalls and demonstrations Victory hall, Benderloch from 10 to 4 pm
    This day is becoming a fantastic woolly indulgence for everyone - there will be fleeces everywhere, all sorts of interesting things to look at, chat about, try out ....
    If you have any pieces of work you want to show, or ask about, brag about, or just share... bring them along.

    Join us to find out more about the creativity of wool and horn work.
    If you have any fleeces ready to card, there will be a commercial carder to work with.

    Evening Concert performance by Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh (Inverclyde Waulking Group). A fun family evening of songs of the loves, lives and history of the Highlands and Islands, Victory Hall, Benderloch (scroll down for more details and tickets)

    feis cothlam 2011 gaelic woolfest oban argyll
    Including - (keep an eye on this page for details and added features)

  • Wool, fleeces, sheepskins
  • Skills demonstrations : shearing, carding, dyeing, spinning, weaving, felting, rug making,
  • Meeting areas for crafters from all over the Highlands - Ravelry members ~ Once a Sheep, Inverkip : who else is meeting up here?
  • Gaelic Waulking singers
  • Lamb, and mutton for sale, along with all the other food goodies of the market.
  • Lots of wool inspired crafts to buy, as well as silk scarves, jewellery, pyrography etc.
  • plenty to eat on the day and to take away.
  • Displays of breed information, fleeces, and items from wool and sheep.

    (this page will be updated as more ideas are confirmed)
    If you would like to join in with displays, demonstrations, crafts and skills PLEASE let us know - here is more information

    Local Origins Rural Network, LORN , invites you to their second Gaelic Wool Festival - Feis Cothlam 2011 : a Celebration of all things Woolly in Argyll.
    A fun filled 3 day event, incorporating all things to do with crafts and products from sheep we can come up with - featuring the much acclaimed Gaelic Waulking Singers - Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh - based around Benderloch.

    On Thursday 21st July 2011 there is a supersized Local Producers market at Kintaline Farm, Benderloch, with all the usual attractions together with lots more displays, demonstrations, and stalls. There will be shearing, spinning, singing, knitting, horn work, and lots of ideas as to what you can make from sheep. Displays of fleeces, as well as innovative commerical products. Food is, as always a vital part of the LORN market - plenty to buy, and lots to eat on the day, along with cookery demonstrations - come and find out what to do with lamb, hogget and mutton of different breeds of sheep.

    On Friday 22nd July 2011 there will be a variety of woolly crafty workshops which you will need to book in advance. These are still being finalised and we are open to more suggestions if you would like to run something in the area. Handling fleeces ; Spinning ; Waulking a tweed and the Gaelic Working songs; Peg loom weaving; are just some of the proposed workshops you can book. Please get in touch if you have a course or workshop you would like to offer. The costs of each one will vary.

    On Saturday 23rd July 2011 the Victory Hall Benderloch is the venue for a day long drop in free taster sessions for woolly crafts; stalls; displays and demonstrations.

    Saturday's finale is a full evening concert performance of the Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh (Inverclyde Waulking Singers) who will entertain us all with their gaelic working songs, just as the women of the Highlands and Islands sang to each other over centuries, as they spun, washed, milked and waulked the tweeds. The songs evoke the trials and tribulations of the life of our ancestors, as well as depict the history throughout the Hebrides. The high quality of this group has recently been recognised with a personal invitation to perform at an international festival in Poland in October.
    Tickets to the evening performance at Benderloch's Victory Hall, are £7.50 (£5 concessions) booked before night, and £9 (£7) on the night. Join us in a fun energetic evening, bar open from 7 pm, for a 7.30 start.

    Contact us for more information