Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival

http://www.sheepandwool.org/

Look here for classes and events!

State Fair of Virginia

http://www.statefairva.org/

The Fall Fiber Festival of Virginia

http://www.fallfiberfestival.org/

Sedalia Spring Festival  April 14, 2007

http://www.springfiberfestival.com/

Treenway Silks

http://www.treenwaysilks.com/

Virginia Fiber Sources & Shops

http://www.textilelinks.com/com/shop/va.html

Earth Guild

http://www.earthguild.com/

Woodland Woolworks

http://www.woodlandwoolworks.com/

The Woolery

http://www.woolery.com/

Basketry Suppliers

http://www.basketmakers.org/topics/suppliers/suppliersmenu.htm

Basketry

http://www.hhperkins.com/

Holly Spring Homespun

http://www.hollyspringhomespun.com/index.php

Sheep Breeds

http://www.albc-usa.org/wtchlist.htm#sheep

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/

Soy Silk

http://www.soysilk.com/Newsletter.html

Ingeo fiber

http://stores.yahoo.com/thebellwether/ingeo.html

("ingredients from the earth" (geo).) The page warns that the fiber will melt at 170°!

Cotswold

http://www.cotswold.gov.uk/museums/exhibitions/MedeivalWoolTrade.htm

Silk and ongoing indigo pots

www.aurorasilk.com

Mushrooms for Color, Polypores for Paper

http://www.sonic.net/dbeebee/index.html

Market and Technical Survey: Natural Dyes Annex 1

http://www.raise.org/natural/pubs/dyes/annex.stm

Selected Recommended Natural Dyes

http://www.thedyeworks.com/instructions/instructions.html

"Almost 400 sock pattern sites listed."

http://knittingfun.homestead.com/sockpatterns.html

Alphabetical, or by designer, or by yarn weight, or for women, or for men, or for children and more!

"Free Knitting Patterns for Charitable Use"

http://pages.ivillage.com/tshaddox/charitablecrafters/id25.html

Patterns for hats, mittens, socks, booties, sweaters, washcloths, even graph paper and felted bags.

Knitter's Review

http://knittersreview.com/article_yarn.asp?article=/review/product/031009_a.asp

a review of 100% Soy Silk yarn, 'Phoenix', from South West Trading Company

Spindle Spinning from Novice to Expert

http://www.spindling.com/whatis.html

Connie Delaney

how to assemble and use a charkha, make a puni, a long list of spinning links, and more!

http://www.urbanspinner.com/index.shtml

Elaine Benfatto

"Collected Wisdom from the Ashford Spinners' Mailing List"

http://www.foxglovefiber.com/foxglove/wisdom/index.html

Carolyn Priest-Dorman

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/

Researches medieval textiles - articles are extensively referenced- start at this home page and browse-

Company of the Silver Spindle

http://kws.atlantia.sca.org/

AWESOME network of links and information

formerly known as the Knowne Whorl Spinners is a Guild dedicated to the art of hand spinning, - teaching the art of spinning [and its uses], and researching the use of fiber throughout the ages. ...operating within the confines of the Society for Creative Anachronism,- the main focus - before 1600

Regia Anglorum

http://www.regia.org/village.htm

then follow the numerous links

Early Medieval (or Dark Ages) Living History and Re-enactment society - recreate the lives and deaths of Anglo-Saxons, Norsemen, Normans and the other people of the British isles in the centuries around the Battle of Hastings.